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Some people have argued that since Foster is such a threat as a runner, he should move to halfback. This is a necessarily shallow view because it discounts the factors of leadership and performance under pressure...
According to Reich, the original American consciousness thrived in innocent self-interest, dependent on a rather shallow faith in achievement through individual virtue. In the 20rh century the powerful but poorly understood forces of technology-the impersonal impulses toward efficiency and progress through scientific management-harnessed this consciousness. They spawned and nurtured the intimate association of government and big business which Reich calls the corporate state. They became the ultimate determinants of social value and the general welfare, of truth and happiness. They became God; the corporate state became the hand...
Mirror Image. The play is not against Communism but against tyranny, a condition that subsumes all isms. Nonetheless, it is a fierce rebuke to all those shallow-thinking fantasts who believed, early and late, that the Russian Revolution heralded a new dawn for mankind, as epitomized by Lincoln Steffens who said, "I have been over into the future and it works." Solzhenitsyn shows that life in the Soviet Union has been precisely the reverse. It is the mirror image of that abysmal past from which man has been trying to free himself for thousands of years: the enslavement of mind...
...waste into Tagonoura's waters. The catch of cherry-blossom prawns, a gourmet delicacy unique to the area, has been halved in recent years. Pulp sludge has settled on the floor of the port, reducing the depth of the channel from 30 ft. to 18 ft.-too shallow for even small freighters...
Appeal to Anxieties. A prevailing argument was voiced by Kansas Republican Robert Dole, who dismissed the measure as "a shallow appeal to the emotions and anxieties of good Americans, who are weary of seven years of war." He contended that the Senate ought to express its confidence that President Nixon was moving toward "peace with honor, rather than retreat and defeat." Some antiwar critics of the Administration cast negative votes in the belief that a withdrawal deadline would hinder rather than help peace negotiations. The defeat of the amendment cleared the way for easy Senate passage of a $19.2 billion...