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Worst of all, an American president may someday end up where Reagan almost tread last October. At the summit in Reykjavik, Iceland, Reagan almost agreed to dramatic cuts in long-range nuclear weapons in exchange for limits on American space defense plans. Regardless of whether one believes in the promise of SDI, the picture of an aging president, unfamiliar with nuclear strategy, in free-form negotiations with the Soviets is a frightening...
...Democratic Convention were members of the National Education Association or American Federation of Teachers. Both groups have been skeptical of such ideas for improving the quality of education as competency tests and merit pay for teachers unless teachers themselves exercise considerable control over whatever plans are adopted. Democrats tread cautiously in this area; they cannot afford either to antagonize the unions or to expose themselves to the charges of catering to special interests that were hurled with such devastating effect at Walter Mondale...
...Perelman offered a unique amalgam of elegant phrase and pratfall comedy. Behind each one was the carefully drawn self-portrait of a curmudgeon, skewering the pretentious, detonating popular culture and putting backspin on cliches ("Jigwise, all is up"). The role of sulfurous commentator was not a disguise. Don't Tread on Me proves that the life story of Perelman was the adventures of Mr. Hyde and Mr. Hyde. Early on he decided that Will Rogers' statement "I never met a man I didn't like" was "pure flatulence, crowd-pleasing and fake humility," and acted accordingly. Prudence Crowther, Perelman...
...letters refute that claim. Those that gripe are bitterly amusing; but it is when they fail to disguise sorrow that they become poignant. Perhaps the most moving aspect of Don't Tread on Me is a negative one: Sidney Joseph Perelman promised an autobiography, and here is the only one he got around to writing. He died in 1979 at the age of 75, and wordwise, this is his last...
...Central America is without a doubt a vital American interest, but, we hear, America must not act unless Contadora or the OAS or Costa Rica -- a country with no army -- leads the way. Since it is impossible to imagine that weak countries will go where a superpower fears to tread, this requirement of allied support is a guarantee of American inaction. This is isolationism disguised as multilateralism. It betrays a fundamental misunderstanding of what superpower status means. It means acting to protect allies even when they are too weak or too cowed to do so on their own. In most...