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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Secret Service agents displayed their traditional cool in a potentially explosive situation. They let the two RCP protesters harangue the man who served as Secretary of the Air Force at the height of the Vietnam war. At the same time, the agents inconspicuously slid into position in case one of the verbal assailants pulled a gun. A moment before, Brown had been extolling the virtues of arms control...
Ulam said the capability of the Soviet brigade is "not significant," but that the United States should have been more vocal about the problem during the height of Cuba's African intervention...
...with general relief. Still, the world is full of dictatorships, the U.S. has to deal with most of them, and simply condemning them on moral grounds is not a policy. Support for many of these regimes is widely accepted as necessary in a divided and dangerous world. Since the height of the cold war, American policymakers have been saying of one right-wing despot or another, as Franklin Roosevelt is supposed to have said of Somoza's dictatorial father "Tacho" in the late 1930s, & "He may be a son of a bitch...
Stage presence is one thing, acting another. Pavarotti is often an indifferent actor, though in a broad role like the bumpkin in Donizetti's The Daughter of the Regiment he can be an effective comedian. His chief asset, especially in romantic roles, is his height, which offsets his distinctly un-dashing waistline. "I never look at how wide they are, but how tall," says Soprano Beverly Sills. "It is a relief to be able to put your head on a tenor's shoulder." What carries Pavarotti through is his patent sincerity and gut-level identification with his characters...
...history to the shallow places where ideas evaporate 30 seconds after they splash. For all the range of its uses, decadence is a crude term. It houses fallacies. People think of decadence as the reason for the collapse of Rome, but the point is arguable. Rome at the height of its imperial power was as morally depraved as in its decline. Perhaps more...