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...told, the decades immediately after World War II were something of a golden age for socialism. As countries extended their sway over business, Economists Joseph Schumpeter and Friedrich von Hayek darkly warned of an irreversible global turning away from capitalism. Schumpeter argued, "Socialism of a very sober type would almost automatically come into being." Hayek predicted that the rejection of free enterprise would create dictatorships everywhere...
...place of intricate plotting, hidden clues and surprise solutions, American detective fiction relies on character and language. Both are aggressively egalitarian, rejecting fancy airs and flowery talk. Here is Marlowe recalling a visit to a client: "I was neat, clean, shaved and sober, and I didn't care who knew it. I was everything the well-dressed private detective ought to be. I was calling on four million dollars." He and his kin are cynical, terse and masters of an amiably menacing tone that echoes the classic response to insult of Owen Wister's The Virginian: "When you call...
...unless the measure was rescinded, their countries might retaliate by canceling planned high-level visits to East Germany. U.S. diplomats in Bonn denied reports that the responses under consideration could include, as a last resort, a break in relations. But, warned one U.S. diplomat, "talk of it might just sober up the East German government...
Something more than jingoistic pride seemed to be involved in the public's attitude. Many respondents approved the strike despite a sober appreciation of the dangers involved. Three out of five declared themselves to be "afraid of what will happen in the future," and 48% agreed that "the bombing will only make the situation with Libya worse, not better." But the majority looked for eventual gains; 56% agreed that "in the long run, the bombing will help stop terrorist attacks on Americans...
...African novelist Alan Paton, an outspoken liberal critic of apartheid, once declared: "I am full of joy to realize that I never had anything to do with any divestment campaign." Paton, unlike those who protest today, knows that the divestiture movement rests more on moral outrage than on a sober evaluation of South African realities. Because American disinvestment can so easily harm those whom it ought to help, and because Harvard's financial involvement with repressive regimes hardly begins and ends with South Africa, blanket divestiture would represent the first step into an ethical minefield...