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...Though only their dorsal fins were visible, it was generally assumed that lurking beneath the surface of rumor and innuendo was Haig's natural adversary, National Security Adviser Richard Allen. The two have had their differences in the past, but a new and uncommonly vicious outbreak of backbiting last week showed just how debilitating such a feud can be, to the participants and to the consistency and credibility of U.S. foreign policy...
...when in 1975 a Berkeley political scientist named Michael Rogin published a book Fathers and Children: Andrew Jackson and the Subjugation of the American Indian. Rogin says he was writing under "the sway of the Viet Nam War." He sees Jackson as little more than a vicious Indian hater, "presiding over American expansion and Indian destruction," presaging general American attitudes toward "native peoples" everywhere. Andy Jackson, in fact, has been one of the most volatile of Presidents in his historical repute. The dominant historians of the 19th century, proper New Englanders and other Eastern gentry, sniffed...
...take time to think of the children inheriting the system, don't trust government, you see. I think that Democrats tend to believe that more government is the solution. The real reason I'm in this is because of my terrible discovery hat government can be so vicious. But of course there are times when government is the best answer. That was the case with civil rights...
...most powerful films ever made about poverty and oppression in Latin America. Its lack of overt moral commentary is more than compensated for by its stark, at times shocking, realism. Even the most graphic American films seem tame by comparison. Babenco uses scenes of crude abortion and vicious sodomy to capture the misery of an impoverished and overpopulated Third World metropolis. Filth, noise, chaos, this is Pixote's world: grim walls, dim light, inane pop music blaring in the background...
...Along with some of the history of the psychoanalytic movement--she assiduously avoids Adler and Jung--the author provides a rather scorching insight into the analytic establishment. The image of these beacons of the analytic community, privy to the holy of holies of the human mind, playing mean and vicious power games and displaying no small modicum of paranoia, induces a sobering feeling about what the phrase "psychic determinism" actually means...