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Government legislation, as opposed to pressure from the private sector, will only aggravate inequalities which capitalism creates. The long-term cost of instituting government agencies to oversee the distribution of wages in the corporateworld would outweigh the advantages completely and would render the legislation very unpopular...
...Defense Initiative, better known as Star Wars, announced by Reagan in March of last year. Reagan's hope is to create a space-based defensive umbrella that would zap enemy missiles with lasers or particle beams almost as soon as they were launched. His ultimate goal is to render nuclear weapons obsolete. Indeed, if the U.S. can build a foolproof nuclear shield, Reagan proposes sharing the technology with the Soviets. The Administration wants to spend $26 billion on Star Wars over the next five years. So far, Congress has authorized almost $2.4 billion, enough to get research and development...
...Government tends to grow; Government programs take on weight and momentum, as public servants say, always with the best of intentions, 'What greater service we could render if only he had a little more money and a little more power.' " Reagan told his Cabinet Secretaries that he was ready to hit "the sawdust trail," spreading the gospel to cut Government spending. "Lame duck?" he chortled. "I'll put a cast on that lame leg, and that will make a heck of a kicking...
Still, sometimes the natural is not enough. To render the coinages, puns, obscure allusions and technical vocabulary that abound in Grass's novels, Manheim consulted a series of specialists. Dentists were interviewed for Local Anaesthetic, stonecutters for The Tin Drum and conchologists for From the Diary of a Snail. On other esoteric points, Manheim prefers to query Grass by letter, rather than participate in seminars that the author periodically conducts in Frankfurt for his translators...
...foreign literature a new life in another tongue. Goethe, who called this work "one of the most important and valuable concerns in the whole of world affairs," found time to translate literature from ten different languages into German. André Gide argued that every writer "has an obligation to render at least one foreign work of art into his own language." He chose Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra, then went on to Hamlet. In America most major modern poets have obeyed Gide's injunction. The result is a vigorous body of English verse that encompasses such varied sources...