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Gorbachev has come under increasingly shrill attack from radicals and conservatives alike for letting the country drift into chaos and disorder. Store shelves are empty, crime is rising, virtual civil war has flared in the Caucasus, secessionist fever has infected the Baltics -- and as far as many Soviets are concerned, all that party members and parliamentarians have done is gather for mass talkathons. There have even been calls from both Gorbachev's foes and his supporters for an "iron hand" to take control. The conservative daily Sovetskaya Rossiya complained last week that the Kremlin's brand of reform has been...
...TACTICS are equally self-destructive. The ideologues' shrill voices and closed ears drive away the very people that they should try to convince. They preach to the converted. Talking to those who agree with your views may be pleasant, but it does nothing to change anyone's mind...
...sure, some scientists reluctantly allow that Rifkin does ask important questions about the ethical, economic and social implications of the new technologies, as indeed he does. The problem is that Rifkin frequently presents his case in such a shrill and occasionally unscrupulous manner that in the debates he hopes to encourage, fear and anger frequently replace information and reasoned judgment. As a result, the message is too easily discarded with the messenger. Says W. French Anderson, a gene-therapy researcher at the National Institutes of Health (and a Rifkin target): "In private, he and I agree almost exactly. The difference...
...election became almost a referendum on the future of race relations in New York City. Although Koch was trying to win back the Black electorate (which he deperately needed to do), his tone was typically shrill and aggravating...
...they both got rich suing each other. Similarly, one media adviser in a foreign country may be a boon for democracy, but bring in a rival and you create that lucrative state known as consultant gridlock. Before long the airwaves will be dominated by dueling commercials, each more shrill and negative than the last, until foreign elections pivot on the local equivalents of Willie Horton and the Pledge of Allegiance...