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...sake of promoting this independence from the United States and the rest of the NATO alliance that even the communist party has never opposed the deployment of nuclear arms, he said...
...fine-tuned. Clark, a close friend of Reagan's, mainly seems to reinforce the President's rightward tendencies. On those rare occasions when he does come down hard on one side of an issue, Clark seems too emphatic, as if he seeks to be decisive for the sake of decisiveness. Says a senior State Department official: "He makes decisions that only he thinks have been fully thought...
Rebelling against the "systematizes," Tuchman has instead spread a vision of the historian as artist, and advocated history for its own sake. "Is it necessary to insist on a purpose" Tuchman wrote...
...asks the novelist why he writes novels or the poet what is his purpose in writing poems. The lilies of the field, as I remember were not required to have a demonstrable purpose. Why cannot history be studied and written and read for its own sake as the record of human behavior, the most fascinating subject of all? Insistence on a purpose turns the historian into a prophet--and that is another profession...
...smoothing of the transition from satirical farce to personal tragedy. This production leads the script the advantage of consistently fine acting, and gives the playwright, actors, and audience an opportunity to try something new, Now is this a bizarre theater "experience" to be endured for the sake of broadening one's mind. It is funny, fastpaced, and not too long, and these virtues, rare enough anywhere, more than justify this sort of gamble...