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...Washington, Rep. Tony Hall said in a statement, "I am grateful to the Nicaraguan government for promising to release my brother, and I look forward to seeing him when this trauma is all over...
...immediate acclaim for Platoon, although welcome, is no surprise. Over the past five or six years, the American public has finally, slowly, begun to remember the Vietnam War. The last American troops were withdrawn in 1973, Saigon fell in 1975, and the public consciousness repressed it like some horrible trauma of childhood. It took nearly a decade for the undeclared statute of limitations on the guilt to run out; only then could we call the veterans out of the cellar, and give them their due of parades and memorials...
...image of the bad machine, a Moloch bent on destruction and alienation, that had haunted the imagination of artists and writers through the 19th century. No one was going to see the machine as an unqualified good. But America's role in that distant war had been small, its trauma of human loss slight. With industry booming, Americans found it not just easy but almost obligatory to believe in machine- created Utopias. Their country, wrote the photographer Paul Strand in 1922, was the "supreme altar of the new God," a trinity formed by "God the Machine, Materialistic Empiricism...
Ford's stunning resurgence is largely the product of its 1980-82 trauma, during which the company lost $3.3 billion. Ford's dire situation inspired its leaders to make the kind of long-shot gambles that few automakers would risk under normal circumstances. The decision to cut back dramatically the company's factory capacity has succeeded in lowering Ford's fixed expenses so that its North American operations now make a profit after selling just 2.1 million vehicles a year, 30% fewer than necessary in 1980. Ford has not opened a single new U.S. plant since 1980 but has refitted...
That essential feel for the trauma, the tragedy, the aloneness of the Jews in that dark period is simply missing from the Arabs' sense of history and from their grasp of the present...They cannot understand the fierce sensations of vulnerability, the lusty devotion to military strength, the stubborn resistance to international criticism, the waves of guilt that soften the core of the hardness. They cannot comprehend the gnawing fear of powerlessness that grinds beneath the arsenal of tanks and planes, the lurking conviction that it could happen again, and that again the world would look the other...