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...must death always be our reward? Must we always treat the symptom rather than the sickness? Must retaliation always follow atrocity in the awful agony of the Middle East? Harsh retaliation has only forged patriots into terrorists and forced them out into the world to destroy peace...
...mindless, liberal technocratic managerial vision" he found there. At York University in Toronto he became a professor of humanities and wrote At the Edge of History, a provocative little book greeted variously as "dazzling" and as "not so much an analysis of the decadence of our civilization as a symptom of its decline." Wrote one reviewer: "Thompson's Edge is to Charles Reich's The Greening of America what chess is to Chinese checkers." In a lengthy interview, TIME Correspondent John Wilhelm pursued further Thompson's ideas about technocracy, beginning with the Club of Rome, the international...
...more worried about nuclearization than the Japanese themselves. Such a step to them spells continued hostility from China and a serious obstacle to the process of accommodation that Japan has successfully followed since the war to safeguard its far-flung supply lines and markets. This is not just the symptom of a passing "nuclear allergy." It is the sober assessment of a crowded island nation that knows it can be wiped out by a couple of H-bombs on Tokyo and Osaka and is not about to pay the vast economic and political price for nuclear status symbols that have...
...anything approaching sense that one is hard pressed to believe it ever occurred. Far better it were the creation of some absurdist gone mad. That the Federal Theatre, which Mrs. Flanagan represented, could be investigated for producing Marlowe, for putting on "collectivist" children's plays, is only one symptom of the national disease...
...other great symptom of the Porter epidemic is an absolutely dazzling two-record set. "Bobby Short Loves Cole Porter", (Atlantic Records). Bobby Short is an old New York night club singer, who has been doing a one man Porter review for over a year now. He's the top. He's the Colosseum...