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Love him or hate him, Richard Nixon is hard to ignore. Since his resignation in 1974, Nixon has re-emerged as an outspoken thinker on American politics and a respected analyst of foreign policy. His forthcoming book, In the Arena, excerpted this week in TIME, is his most emotionally fired memoir to date and his most exculpatory. Beginning with his flight from the White House, he recounts his moments of despair and his struggle to redeem himself...
...relatively recent past such as the Empire State Building and the Flatiron Building in New York; old practical forms like a windmill, a smokestack or a lighthouse; or things that have acquired a sort of timelessness as artistic stereotypes, like Myron's Discobolos or Rodin's The Thinker. But few of them are immediately recognizable, and they all derive from other kinds of art, including photography. The looming profile of Moskowitz's Flatiron Building comes from Edward Steichen's famous gray-silhouetted photo of that structure, made almost three-quarters of a century before; Thinker begins with another moody Steichen...
...Jackson is elected to high office, at the least one should do him and everyone else a favor and read him this remark by John Maynard Keynes, the greatest thinker the poor and oppressed of the industrial world ever had on their side: "Words ought to be a little wild, for they are an assault of thought upon the unthinking. But when the seats of power and authority have been attained, there should be no more poetic license. When a doctrinaire proceeds to action, he must, so to speak, forget his doctrine. For those who in action remember the letter...
Former Secretary of Defense Harold Brown, a world-class thinker about the unthinkable and nobody's softy, acknowledged back in the 1970s that a Soviet decision to attack American missiles would be a "cosmic roll of the dice." Yet Soviets play chess; they do not shoot craps. Stalin advanced several black pawns and a knight against one of white's most vulnerable squares, West Berlin, in 1948. Nikita Khrushchev tried a similar gambit in 1961, and he was downright reckless over Cuba in 1962. The stupidity as well as the failure of that move contributed to his downfall...
...little expectation that he will be the leader who will guide East Germany along the path toward social and economic reform. Krenz may turn out to be only a transitional figure, put in place, like the Soviet Union's Konstantin Chernenko, to warm the chair for a more visionary thinker. "The real reformers will take over power in the next six to twelve months," predicts Wolfgang Seiffert, a former adviser in the East German Communist Party who now teaches at West Germany's Kiel University. Others see in Krenz the possibility of a Yuri Andropov -- someone who appeals to conservatives...