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...first stringer who overshadows him, or reviewer-character Birdboot's moral outrage at other critic's criticism of his rather intense interest in a new actress each opening night. All I know is that one feels it wise to be on one's best critical behavior, for safety's sake, in inspecting a play like The Real Inspector Hound...
...President Bok is trying to cause a stir about an educational revolution, and on the other he wishes to maintain a repressive force which has forced his corporation into an ignorant position. I call it ignorant because the reason it is important is for the people's sake, not an institution's. This policy is as repressive to the male as the female because it lowers the standard of living for all (while we are here) and perpetuates the inequality that American educational institutions are supposed to erase...
...persistent fears about the Soviet determination to use détente not as a pathway to peace but as an easier route to political and military advantage. One constant concern is that agreements on limiting strategic weapons will eventually work against the U.S. Another is that for the sake of preserving détente, the U.S. has become almost a partner in immorality. Washington, maintaining that peaceful relations with Moscow are paramount and that it has no business interfering in Soviet internal affairs, looks the other way when Moscow expels dissenters like Solzhenitsyn and compels dissatisfied Soviet Jews to remain...
...Heilbroner now doubts that mankind can be brought to care enough about the future to do what is necessary to save the present - especially as regards self-denial. Can 20th century civilization give up the "ethos of 'science' " (not to mention the work ethic) and for sake the now monstrous ideal of growth for the ideal of stability? Heilbroner sees little reason to expect that either of the two main socioeconomic systems will manage such self-abnegation. Both capitalism and socialism, he argues, share the values of technology - production and efficiency - with small regard for the pillage...
...epitaph on liberalism written with conspicuous pain by an author who includes himself in the epitaph. Heilbroner fits his own description of Promethean man, full of "driving energy," "nervous will": a problem solver. Now, he grimly concludes, that gift of fire may burn up the world. For the sake of the race Prometheus must go. To be replaced by whom? Atlas, Heilbroner proposes, the burden bearer rather than the problem solver: the man who plays life not to win but to survive. Before a reader is carried away by this bleak neomythology, he should ask: Just what are Heilbroner...