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...guide, there is little doubt that increasing amounts of advice in the next generation will be based, upon more complicated methods of analysis. Thus, the training of generalists demands an exposure to broadly applicable methods of policy analysis just as it demands appreciation of a variety of matters that transcend these formal techniques...
...economics of arms sales may even transcend bitter hatreds. One California communications-equipment dealer, for example, recently received a sizable order from the Syrian armed forces for some militarily useful items. He scribbled "F you!" across the order form and returned it to the Syrian embassy in Washington. A few days later, a puzzled military attache called the dealer, inquiring why he had so brusquely refused the order. "I'm Jewish," explained the Californian. "What's that got to do with it?" asked the Arab. "This is business...
...this stage, the American political leadership does not seem able to transcend the political constraints" imposed by Israel's supporters, Sharaf said...
...both cases, however, George and Doris eventually find their shared humanity sufficient bond against temporary biological and physical impediments. In he first of the two scenes, the lovers transcend the crisis when George delivers Doris's premature baby; In the second, when he reveals the roots of his bitterness in the recent death of his son by a sniper's bullet. Through the acts of birth, love and death-the rhythms that punctuate the cycle of life-the lovers reaffirm the ties that make them return each year...
Even the counterculture of the '60s--which was genuinely in opposition to advanced, bureaucratized capitalism and the stilted, unspontaneous him in beings it created--could not transcend this vision of the past. The hip Left's retreat into rural communalism and undisciplined, leaderless opposition was essentially in keeping with America's Jeffersonian traditions. In American style, a large part of the '60s Left could not make a virtue of organized planned collectivism but instead tried to create a vision of society which was small scale, often rural, and largely anarchic. In a society and economy as interdependent and complex...