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However, some of Peretz's critics charge that his ardent Zionism is giving the magazine a new kind of predictability, not only in its treatment of the Middle East, but the rest of the world. Disgruntled former members of the staff say his yardstick for all matters is how they affect Israel, that his hawkish position on Israel has had a ripple effect on other issues. One of them cynically suggests that the magazine be renamed "The Middle East..And the Rest of The World...
...REPRESSING DISSENT: Illegal acts that foment social disorder and confusion in the face of threats of aggression from the North must be controlled to safeguard the basic rights of the majority. People [who] criticize what we do in Korea measure the situation with the same yardstick that they use in the U.S. Here the situation is much more desperate. Only 25 miles from Seoul, an enemy is bent on destroying us. We can not allow disorder. If we liberalize internally, if we let the students riot and the workers go on strike, the resulting confusion will be utilized...
Steingut denies that the effort to establish a state bank was prompted by the UDC affair. He prefers to stress that such an institution would keep money deposited in the state from being invested in development elsewhere, and serve as a yardstick to measure the performance of private banks in meeting community needs. The profits that the bank generates could possibly be channeled to the state treasury and used to defray governmental costs...
...Committee to ask in frustration: "Can you explain to a simple-minded man like me the mental processes by which you can determine how much money ought to be spent for a particular project unless you know what the project is?" Replied Stans coolly: "Mr. Chairman, there is no yardstick by which you judge the necessities of a political campaign...
...love relationship. To call Cassavetes a Laingian is to assume that he analyzes what he sees the same way an intellectual does. But the only thread connecting his view of society with an intellectual's is the same starting material. An intellectual places what he sees on some historical yardstick; Cassavetes grabs the historical second and expresses it as a universal eternity. While analysing a picture's content allows the intellectual and the artist to compare notes, there comes a point when you have to accept an artist on his own terms. That is, if an artist's work eludes...