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...Encounter, adds his voice to the debate in the September issue. Translations of Fukuyama's article, titled "The End of History?," will soon appear in Japanese, Italian and Dutch journals. The French quarterly Commentaire will also publish a translation, along with critiques by leading intellectuals such as Jean-Francois Revel. The National Interest, which accompanied Fukuyama's article with responses by such pundits as Allan Bloom (The Closing of the American Mind) and New York's Democratic Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan, will print two more lengthy reactions in its autumn issue...
...accepted by your friends and trying to prove yourself in the best way you know how, which is being violent." Gangs allow even the most cowardly and impotent to feel brave and powerful. And they override inhibitions and diminish any feelings of guilt. Violence becomes contagious. Some youngsters revel in the mayhem; others, too weak to break away, become trapped and are swept along...
Eating Hershey's chocolate and Oreos, I typed in my footnotes to the rhythm of Simon and Garfunkel. And when I had finished the title page, I turned off "The Sound of Silence" to revel in the sound of my printer...
...short, America as a nation represents man's attempt to live together peacefully. While we should admire the men who risked their lives so that our nation could survive, we should regret that such events as World War II ever happened and try to learn their lessons, not revel in their glories...
...instance, basketball fans know full well the indelicacies of college recruiting but are ready to imagine that their school's pituitary catch matriculated like any other student and went out for the team. Pro-football fans are hip to the sport's ghastly rigors -- revel in them, as a matter of fact -- but have no questions to ask offensive linemen with necks like waists. Ultimately, baseball's pennant races push all the season's misdeeds and mistresses aside. In any of these fantasy worlds, lasting disillusionment is nearly impossible since illusionment is the name of the game...