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...exposed intimacies is easier to understand than the supply. The public hunger for spilled beans is just more of the craving for news, the yen to be titillated, touched or amused by the foibles and agonies of others. Squalid and sleazy tales may reinforce the smug superiority of the righteous or provide perverse comfort for the miscreant. But Americans of all stripes have al ways had, though not uniquely, what University of Chicago Law Professor Philip Kurland calls a "public commitment to voyeurism." Still, why is the voyeuristic hunger suddenly being so abundantly pandered to? Why are so many people...
Spokesmen for official Soviet thinking are at once disillusioned, distrustful and implacably self-righteous about who is to blame for the decline of détente and who, therefore, must make the first move in a joint salvage operation. "It will take years to undo the damage done in the past few months," warns a member of the U.S.A. Institute. Moscow officials say privately that the Politburo's decision to invade Afghanistan was made much easier by three years of "hostile" Carter policies. "We had little to lose," says an expert on foreign affairs in Moscow. "Your Government had long since...
...West show will make enough money to pay for a ranch "where city kids can come out and see what the West was really like." He lavishes his kindness on everyone from runaway heiresses to Viet Nam deserters, from one-handed cowboys to pregnant Indians. He is stirred to righteous anger only when a bad guy mauls his best gal or breaks a little boy's piggy bank. He is too good to be true-except in a sweet-souled dime-novel movie like this here...
...Republic of Korea the events of April 1960 are popularly known as hak saeng uigo-the Righteous Student Uprising. During those turbulent days, the students of South Korea succeeded in doing what their country's politicians had failed to do: they brought down the entrenched, increasingly corrupt twelve-year-old government of President Syngman Rhee and sent the crusty old leader into exile. Today, even the official Handbook of Korea, published under the Park Chung Hee regime hails the uprising unreservedly. "The students," it declares, "had led the people into a democratic revolution...
Hitler's eyes lit up. It was like the party rallies, the football games, where there are no questions, no complications, only heroes and martyrs, and great, righteous causes. The crowd was following him devoutly now, all the way down Mass Ave to the police station, where Hitler was booked and fingerprinted with his technicians...