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...Henry V and his subjects in the early fifteenth century. The word "warlike" in Henry V is an adjective of praise, not of opprobrium. And the monarch, for "our kingdom's safety," repeatedly invokes God's participation in doing battle when the "cause [is] just and [the] quarrel honorable." For good or ill, Henry's goal is that of so many present-day politicians: law 'n' order...
...year-old superstar, whose high-velocity passes carried the Jets to a startling 16-7 upset over the National Football League's powerful Baltimore Colts earlier this year, gave as his reason the latest in a long series of off-the-field scraps. This time the quarrel was with N.F.L. Commissioner Pete Rozelle, who had demanded that Joe relinquish his one-third interest in Bachelors III, a Manhattan watering place said to have become a gamblers' hangout. "Rozelle told me I must get out of the restaurant business or be suspended," Joe said. "I don't think...
There are, McCarthy said, three themes of modern thought--each leading to a kind of determinism--which have, in some cases, been accepted too readily and too extensively by universities. He stressed that he did not quarrel with the ideas per se, but rather with extensions of their conclusions not warranted by evidence. The three trends...
...overall goal should be the evolution of an Asian balance of power, a mosaic of self-interest that induces Asians, including the Chinese, to trade rather than quarrel with their neighbors. To that end, distant as it now seems, Washington might well take several small to middling unilateral steps demonstrating that the U.S. poses no threat to China and its regime, and that it desires conciliation whenever Peking is ready for it. Says Harvard Sinologist James C. Thomson Jr., a former State Department and National Security Council official: "Why wait for the other man to blink? Why not try winking...
...current cliche) is largely confined to the upper-middle-class white students. The majority of students remain reasonably content with traditional careers. In general, the children of blue-collar workers and Negro students strive to attain the very jobs that many privileged whites disdain. Most students have no special quarrel with the profit motive, and an estimated 30% of all graduates go into business. As a senior at Columbia University puts it: "I think it's great that all the academic virtuosos are turning up their noses at the good business jobs. Let the brains starve in South America...