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Those of us who ardently desire a racially equal society are naturally tempted into calling for radical means to bring about that end as quickly as possible. Nevertheless, some of us don't succumb, because we know that the rights which are violated today for a good cause may be violated tomorrow for a bad one. The safest course is never to violate them at all. James...
...dexterity; Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, Jumpers and Travesties long ago established him as the modern stage's star acrobat of language and ideas. But The Real Thing also has a heart-warm and throbbing with the domestic passion to which anyone, even an intellectual playwright, can happily succumb...
...every President becomes fully sensitized to the awesome power at his command through the military budget process. Virtually all spending calculations, explains Luttwak, are based on a weapon's destructive effects: how many millions would be killed, cities destroyed, regions contaminated. There is no way a President could succumb to reflexive nuclear revenge, even if he is surrounded by old cronies who, after a couple of bourbons, suggest it is time to "nuke 'em." From the man who carries "the football," the briefcase containing the launch codes, to the officers who push the buttons, a President must deal...
Every so often, the awful absurdities of human behavior force themselves on us, defying all attempts at distanced rationalization. Saturday's Game was one of these times, as example of how surreal life can become when we ingest too much alcohol and succumb to the madness that goes by the name of school spirit...
...Ernest Hemingway and Charles of the Ritz used to gather at the streamside Last Chance Bar to hoist a few to the quest, and scores of more or less notables have continued to do the same. Most believe the rainbow trout that has eluded them until now will succumb to a perfectly presented green drake under a cerulean Idaho sky. Some fishermen actually catch their imagined fish. Most...