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...collected essays place keys to Tuchman's skill as on or best in the context of her intellectual growth. Tracing her own inspiration to one professor of history and two of literature, Tuchman recalls that their common characteristic wan an unbounded, almost torrential zeal for knowledge. (Of the historian, a classicist and anti-romantic, she writes: "His contempt for zeal was so zealous, so vigorous and learned, pouring out in a great organ fugue of erudition, that it amounted to enthusiasm in the end.") Passionate fervor, Tuchman observes, is one quality indispensable to a good historian; the other is ability...
Despite its anxiety about out-of-control deficits, the Administration has fought with less than total zeal for a farm bill that would cut back on agricultural subsidies, which cost the taxpayers about $3 billion in the past fiscal year. The reason, as usual, is politics: the White House agreed to continue supporting certain commodities in exchange for needed votes on its tax and budget bills. Complained Democratic Congressman Bob Shamansky of Ohio, after losing a battle to end tobacco protection: "Instead of democracy in action, we had hypocrisy in action...
...always a time of controversy in this city, and this September is no exception. From a quick scan of the radio talk shows it is easy to find the controversy and the arguments that nourish and fortify sports, raising it from the level of a pastime to a zeal, a religion...
...Miller, director of the President's Task Force on Regulatory Relief: "The question is how to achieve legitimate goals at the lowest possible cost. Regulations cost a lot, and these costs are passed on to the consumer." Consumer activists, however, feel that the Administration, in its letting-go zeal, is jettisoning important regulations that are the only way to protect the buyer in the marketplace, the worker on the job and the citizen at home. Says Dr. Sidney Wolfe, executive director of the consumer lobbying group Public Citizen: "They want to take us back to the 19th century...
...problems began in 1978, when Congress, anxious to display its inflation-fighting zeal, put a cap on salaries paid to career bureaucrats. The unforeseen result: 6,000 senior managers now earn the same amount as some 30,000 subordinates who reached the limit by annual cost of living increases. Unless the ceiling is lifted, within two years 135,000 federal employees will be bunched together at the top scale. Says Acting Comptroller General Milton J. Socolar: "This situation is absurd...