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...fundamental problem has been how to approach the Corporation with recommendations. Should the ACSR try to give "realistic" advice to the Corporation--advice within the realm of what the seven fellows might conceivably consider? Or should it talk to the Corporation with its heart--tell it exactly where it stands on issues, knowing full well that Calkins et. al. will laugh in its face...
...past, there was a third criterion, "negotiability": Was there any chance that the Soviets could be induced to accept a proposal? Negotiability ought to be a legitimate consideration in arms-control policymaking. It means simply keeping the enterprise within the realm of the possible and not wasting valuable time on mutual stonewalling. But during the first two years of the Reagan Administration, negotiability was almost a dirty word, a synonym for accommodation and pre-emptive concessions. Officials were chastised for even mentioning it in meetings...
...Association of Evangelicals loved it, and gave Reagan a thunderous ovation, to strains of "Onward, Christian Soldiers." In the secular realm, less fervently religious elements didn't quite seem to know how to digest the rhetoric, so they ended up dismissing it. The editorial page of the New York Times and House Speaker Tip O'Neill Jr. both softly chided the President, while confidently predicting a return of the same politics of compromise. A Reagan staffer remark typified the general lack of serious concern about the speech: "What? That's just rhetoric...
Playwright Athol Fugard's semi-autobiographical Master Harold and the Boys takes place in segregated South Africa in 1950. What makes this a great work, however, is its ability to transcend the racial line and take us into a higher realm of human emotions. That is not to say apartheid is not a subject, but it is only one facet in this play of interlocking themes...
...emphasis as well: on what in cultivating "certain aptitudes...traits and characteristics of mind." During the decades since the Second World War, that goal has come to be expressed, in much of the arts and sciences, through the development of distinctive disciplinary modes of thought. It is in this realm that many of out faculty think their thoughts and live their lives. If the Core did not try to make this powerful and pervasive from of intellection the keystone of its structure, it would have been meritricious indeed. For ultimately, any from of effective general education must rely...