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...dispute between the allies that erupted publicly last week left officials in every allied capital worried about the future of the alliance. Mirrored in the series of events were the weaknesses???as well as some of the strengths?of the ties binding the free world's major powers. Says Helmut Sonnenfeldt, a former aide of Henry Kissinger and now a scholar at Washington's Brookings Institution: "The alliance is going through a period of adjustment out of which new practices and perceptions will grow. There is a potential for new strength but the danger of discord and weakness is greater...
...Even if there is no further trouble, campus quiet is not synonymous with campus health. Oases for ideas, universities should be places of ferment. The violence of the past few years was, of course, unacceptable, but the student movement has called the nation's attention to some of its weaknesses???a hidebound educational establishment, inequitable draft laws, unrepresentative political procedures, to mention some of the most legitimate targets of protest. Despite the new calm, the turbulence of recent years cannot be written off as a mere episode, a minor aberration. The memory of the violence will endure, but so will...
...work or his work for him. Certainly the worship of authors has never gone to greater lengths?lengths possibly of questionable value to their object. Idolatry has made of R. L. S. a figure dizzily perched on the precarious eminence of perfection. He is permitted no faults, no weaknesses???other than the exalted one of physical ill-health. On the other hand, there have been daring iconoclasts no less superlative in their attacks upon this knight of the spotless scutcheon? notably W. E. Henley, his erstwhile patron and intimate, who registered savage protest against the "Seraph in Chocolate," the "Barley...
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