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Amid all the rhetorical smoke surrounding the canal treaty, people are understandably confused about the hard facts-and realities. Some key questions about the pact and what its approval would mean:
The hero of Philip Roth's tenth book is Jewish and unhappy. So what else, as Alexander Portnoy's mother might say, is new? Indeed, David Kepesh is the same slick monologuist that Portnoy was, given to frequent exclamations, flurries of rhetorical questions ("Is she not the single...
Graduating seniors should not expect that Class Day 1977 will contain vigorous calls for social change, demands for changes in foreign policy, or rhetorical attacks on the nation's leaders. Radically, to the contrary, this Class Day may mark the beginning of the admitted complacency stage of undergraduate life here...
Shunning any rhetorical flourishes to dramatize his plan, Carter rushed through its main proposals in low-key style, putting a number of members of Congress to sleep. The multiple facts and figures were somewhat numbing. The delivery was smooth and nearly faultless (he twice said "miles per hour" when he...
In his first public speech since leaving office, Henry Kissinger discreetly took the same view. He declared at Georgetown University: "Negotiations must proceed in a calm, nonconfrontational way, without self-imposed deadlines or rhetorical battles that publicly stake the prestige of both sides." Later, at a party, he bluntly if...