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Perhaps it is the immorality of the President's plan that irks the professors' consciences. Rather than view Star Wars as an attempt to render the mainland invulnerable while we pummel our adversaries we see an opportunity to protect population centers in the event of a nuclear attack. While we are not about to heap hosannas on another level of the arms race, neither are we blind to the plan's positive potentials...
...does not work, of course. But Calvino's narrative of this doomed quest succeeds admirably, in part because he, like Samuel Beckett, recognizes the comic possibilities inherent in the tailspin of logic toward the absurd. Mr. Palomar's relentless speculations render him buffoonish. Passing a woman sunbathing topless on a beach, he averts his eyes lest she cover herself and embarrass them both. On reflection, though, he decides that his behavior was incorrect, since it reinforced outmoded taboos against nudity. So he walks by again, this time taking in the bare breasts as an incidental feature in the general landscape...
...receives an educational experience that would not otherwise be available has an opportunity to contribute something of value to his or her people. Every black worker whose working conditions improve through company policies we have helped to change is a human life made better. Every service that Americans can render in South Africa either to defend the victims of apartheid or to prepare students for higher education is a step that helps pave the way for change. Such efforts may not make an immediate visible dent on the apartheid system, but they are still worth doing. Together with similar steps...
White could probably argue that his first insider accounts were more than good theater. But the last three elections have involved electoral forces that are so far removed from the back room as to render insider accounts almost irrelevant. It is a liberal conceit of these three accounts, especially Time's Henry's "outsider" history, that Reagan, like Nixon before him, had pulled a fast one on the public and the earnest but naive Democrats. Henry, waxing ominous, says of the President in one particularly overdone passage...
...rising influence of a New Right that was not interested in the "conservative" status quo but was instead populist-revolutionary. Given 40 years of New Deal politics, the New Right understood that the status quo was no longer sufficient, and Phillips argues that the coming electoral revolution will render traditional notions of conservatism and liberalism irrelevant...