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...Nicaragua, or any overt or covert attempt by Nicaragua to attack its neighbors." Now, what exactly does "will not tolerate" mean? One cannot just say it. Carter declared the Soviet brigade in Cuba intolerable. Reagan declared the crackdown on Polish Solidarity intolerable. And the intolerable endured, despite the brave words. To be serious about containing Sandinista subversion -- overt and covert -- will mean vigilance, resources and risk. It will mean everything from pouring aid into El Salvador, Honduras and Costa Rica to establishing a ring of American bases around the border of Nicaragua; even, as Walter Mondale suggested during...
...screaming" -- shouting about the leopard the boys had seen -- but had seen only in their dreams. And in the morning, by the goats' pen, the people found leopard tracks. "You know," said Joseph thoughtfully. "There are scary animals. And they eat people. Sometimes people never learn to be brave, and even as old men, they are still afraid...
...small knot of foreigners still crazy or desperate enough to brave the mean streets of Beirut, it was one of the worst weeks in memory. In the short span of eight days, eight new hostages were swept up in a frightening new paroxysm of terrorist kidnapings. Almost any foreigner was fair game, and the reign of terror struck almost anywhere in the tortured city, from the backseat of a taxicab to a sun-drenched sidewalk, from a quiet hotel room to a seat of higher learning...
...Westerns, a genre he favored, Reagan enjoyed playing the brave loner facing a mob: "If one can't handle this" he tells a deputy in Law and Order (1953), "two won't be any good." In fact, the author notes, the old cattle towns relied upon conscientious law enforcement; Bat Masterson and Wyatt Earp were both forced out of Dodge City as troublemakers. During World War II, Reagan acted in propaganda films for the Army. Here, too, facts became servants of the Message, and they remained so in peacetime. "By the time I got out of the Army Air Corps...
Best known for The Handmaid's Tale--her best-selling "visionary" novel in the style of 1984 and Brave New World--Atwood always writes about women struggling against or attempting to survive the oppression of men. The titles of her novels, The Edible Woman, Surfacing, Lady Oracle, Life Before Man, Bodily Harm, bear this...