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Changes in the way the government functions have thrust the press into a more influential political role, Kalb says. "No policy of this government--or any administration--can succeed in this democracy unless the people understand and support the policy, no matter how brilliantly conceived," he says...
...toss and went first: "He lay down on the lower wing with his hips in the padded wingwarping cradle, while Orville made a last-minute adjustment to the motor. When everything was ready, Wilbur tried to release the rope fastening the machine to the rail, but the thrust of the propellers was so great he could not get it loose and two of the men had to forcibly push the Flyer backward a few inches until the rope slipped free. Orville ran beside the machine, balancing it with one hand. In the other hand he held a stopwatch, which...
Johnny attempted a final pelvic thrust but fell to the ground, singing in tongues and bleeding India ink. He grabbed blindly at Betty Sue's blank ankle. "Once more on the printed page," he cried. "Write me, baby. Write...
...peace initiative alive by bringing down the government and pushing for early elections. Peres told Israeli newspaper editors last week that he was "more than optimistic" about the prospects for peace talks. Replied Shamir: "I believe it would be irresponsible with regard to the country's interests to thrust us into the whirlpool of elections . . . and, God forbid, send the country back into the period of inflation and instability...
Leaving aside the rhetorical thrust concerning "moralism of the critics," I note that Huntington's criticism of the Administration and his dig at the "unwarranted optimism of the advocates" is all the more absurd since some of his own opinions were no more than "misplaced optimism," as we see from the passage quoted in section 3. Indeed, Robert D. Putnam in his PS article states that Huntington was guilty of "misplaced optimism about the effects of American-sponsored forced draft urbanization' on the prospects for South Vietnamese resistance to the Communist insurgency...