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Mailer's principle-art should redeem or rather, more important, exculpate the artist-reached its full blossom as a tenet of Romanticism. The artist, for centuries regarded as merely a liveried servant of church and aristocracy, sprang up out of the bourgeoisie in the early 19th century as a dashing hierophant whose work connected him to the divine. It excused everything, from rudeness to homicide. "The fact of a man's being a poisoner," proclaimed Oscar Wilde, "is nothing against his prose...
...behind the image of the great University was a well-defined philosophy, a philosophy of education with forced self-reliance perhaps its most significant tenet. Each student had to fend for himself with a course system that was entirely elective. "The purpose of a University," Harvard president Charles W. Eliot told the entering Class of 1910, is "to allow each man to think and do as he pleases, and the tendency is to allow this more and more," The 18-year-old Reed could not have known how prophetic Eliot's statement would turn out to be--and also what...
...tenet of U.S. immigration policy, not bureacratic incompetence, that blocked the path of Qul and his people to Alaska. U.S. immigration law considers only individuals, whereas Qul had intended to apply for the entire tribe. And no provision existis to justify treating a group of people as a single entity. This--an official from the State Department's Bureau of Refugees, who wishes not to be identified, says--is the only fair way to run immigration...
...write their stories. But besides that, the reporters who regularly cover the President were used to hearing him muse vaguely about policy matters, and, more to the point, his remarks represented no change in U.S. military policy. However carelessly he may have spoken, Reagan was simply restating a tenet of the doctrine of "flexible response" that both the U.S. and its European allies accepted years ago: the use of tactical nuclear weapons would not necessarily lead to nuclear holocaust. If the Soviets were to attack in Europe with their overwhelming superiority in conventional arms, NATO could choose to respond...
True enough. Yet the central tenet of Lefever's orientation is that human rights should not be a major concern of U.S. foreign policy. Beyond "serving as a good example" and providing military aid to allies, Lefever wrote, "there is little the U.S. Government can or should do to advance human rights." Two years ago, Lefever recommended to a congressional committee that it remove from U.S. law "all clauses that establish a human rights standard or condition that must be met by another sovereign government." He said last week of that pronouncement: "I goofed...