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...politics springs from often contradictory roots, that he is, as Middleton says, seeking a marriage of Marx and Milton. It is even true now that the left has come out of hiding, extending a supportive hand to Stone, that the criticism Stone provides has become "respectable." But Stone's steadfast insistence on keeping both eyes open with regard to his country, the world, and himself represents the finest impulse of critical thought, the most important prerequisite to serious political writing in journalism or philosophy...
...watch. Isadora, Bennet her husband, and Adrian Goodlove, a Laingian from England, get involved in an adulterous whirlwing in Vienna. Bennet--Freudian, careful, compulsively clean, straight, steadfast--represents Isadora's panic about being alone and about change. Adrian--Laingian, irresponsible, egotistical, clown, ass grabber--represents her hunger for the heady and exuberant in life. Isadora tries to choose between them, juggling security with Bennet against escape with Adrian, The National Book Award and the Transatlantic Ass Award. She sleeps with Bennet dreaming of Adrian and sleeps with Adrian needing Bennet. She doesn't want what she has, and when...
...souls. Americans have been reticent to face the trial of hard times in the recent past; they have been slow to react to the erosion of their own liberties and to the repression of freedom in other parts of the world. Whether Americans will soon become steadfast in their resistance to oppression depends on their coming to understand what resistance is all about. The way we celebrate the anniversary of the Boston Tea Party will gauge the depth of that understanding...
...environmentalists' reasoning in approaching the University was simple: Harvard is a prestigious institution, one not easily bullied even by a utility giant such as Consolidated Edison. Harvard owns 300 acres of land crucial to the project. And if Harvard were to announce its opposition and a steadfast refusal to sell, Con Ed might just pack up and go home...
Though the U.S. is the best friend the Israelis have, and President Nixon is steadfast in their support, the U.S. Government has never agreed with the hardening Israeli line on territorial expansion as its only and surest protection. A month before the fighting broke out, Nixon acknowledged that "both sides are at fault" for the failure of a peace settlement in the Middle East. Israel, though dismissing the U.N. and often caustic about the validity of world opinion, is not indifferent to the reactions of others, particularly in the U.S. The proof is its decision deliberately to await an Arab...