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...Whatever faux pas he committed along the way, the President succeeded in getting two of the principals in the conflict to lift their eyes from procedural details and ponder the prospect of a final, comprehensive settlement. From the outset of his Administration, Carter had made clear that the old step-by-step approach employed so effectively by Henry Kissinger was in danger of becoming a treadmill, and that haggling over credentials, timetables and terminology had become an excuse for not facing the basic issues...
Television affected the way the project was set up. Had Sadat proceeded through diplomatic channels, feeling out the Israeli response to a visit, the trip might have been delayed; also, by advancing secretly, step by step, either party could have backed down at any time. When Cronkite and other TV reporters got involved, it was irrevocable; the world was a participant. Thus TV hurried the affair along, without actually causing it to happen...
...dead) but otherwise there seem to be few points of reference between an Ancient Egyptian despotism and a democracy today. Harris' focus on technology defeats itself when one considers the developments in science alone of the last century and a half. The book does not provide a step into understanding the destiny of our culture. It does add a wealth of fascinating material to the debate on the origins of culture but even then, Harris ignores so much. The concept of cultural lag, for example, proposed by the anthropologist W. F. Ogburn, describing the same endemic recurrence of survival crises...
Each of the reforms is, to a degree, a step away from the complex hierarchical structure that Gorski established, and which critics have accused of promoting cronyism among high-level supervisors and officers eager for promotion...
...album's strongest cuts are the ones that are unlike "Silk Degrees," the ones that diverge from it or take it a step further. They show how good Scaggs can be when he sticks his neck out a little. "1993," an appropriately spacy tung, is closer to rock and roll than anything he's played for years. There's nothing fancy here, beyond some tricky synthesizer effects; nothing lyrically precious or musically cute. In that it's a return to basics, it's a divergence from the style Scaggs has come to be known for, and it works. Jeff Porcaro...