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...normally amiable tone, President Ronald Reagan said at his press conference that he knew "of no leader of the Soviet Union since the revolution" who did not pursue the goal of "world revolution ... The only morality they recognize is what will further their cause, meaning they reserve unto themselves the right to commit any crime, to lie, to cheat...
This assessment is not a judgment of her personality but of the role she has chosen to play. She is a fiercely dedicated and protective wife. Woe unto anyone whom she catches speaking unfavorably about Ronald Reagan. When Black Panther Eldridge Cleaver attacked the then-Governor of California, Nancy was immediately on the phone. "But, honey," Reagan said, after listening for a while, "I can't have him arrested just because he said those things." Acknowledges Reagan now: "She bleeds pretty good...
...reworking "the Viet Nam experience," reporting it and satirizing it, sending it up an apocalyptic river, holding it to our conscience like The Deer Hunter's revolver. It's over, already. We've heard that song, memorized it, sung it in our sleep, are sick unto bloody death...
...schools." Hard charges to beat, but Culver has turned to the best source of all: when confronted with the Moral Majority rehetoric, he quotes Matthew 25. "Have you helped feed the hungry? Have you brought water to the thirsty?... To the extent that you've done these unto the least, you have done them unto me," Culver paraphrases. "I don't think conservatives can improve on that rating system," he adds. "My opponent [who got a 100-per-cent Moral Majority rating] voted against foreign aid. What would Jesus Christ have said to that when one billion people...
...character study in Jane Austen's Mansfield Park, "the worst way to read a book is childishly to mix with the characters in it as if they were living people." Great works of art, for Nabokov, are not so much versions of the real world as new worlds unto themselves, "supreme fairy tales" whose essential harmony and radiance are self-contained and self-sufficient...