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...question; we are no longer indisputably the world's strongest power, with an apparently limitless supply of resources. As a result, the nation must begin acting more circumspectly, with more self-control and a greater willingness to live with ambiguities rather than attempt to come up with clean-cut solutions to every problem everywhere. By the same token, an increasing number of our parents are finding it possible to set limits on their children, to ask of them as well as give to them, and to regard them more realistically-as messengers of hope but not by any means...
MARK HELPRIN LOOKS well-scrubbed. His face, in a vaguely romantic photograph on the back of the dust jacket, is clean-cut and clean-shaven; the face of a liberal, New York-bred college graduate. It comes as no surprise is that he went to Harvard. What is more of a surprise is that he once served in the British merchant navy, the Israeli infantry, and the Israeli Air Force. In the title story, "A Dove of the East," and in others scattered throughout the book, Helprin re-creates the people and places of his travels. The settings of these...
...lectures, though presented by intelligent, clean-cut demagogues, were laced with analogies, passages removed from context, and impassioned cheers, all things that three years at Harvard had taught me to question. Somehow, however, I didn't question them at all; no one did. We were all having such a great time, enjoying the activities and the farm, that we wanted to believe that Moon was the answer to all our questions...
...they fear that if they press too hard for the fines, the Government might retaliate by cutting its federal grants to the city's traffic department. So far, only one agency seems to have made any gesture to pay up. Last month, perhaps in memory of the clean-cut, square-jawed rectitude of Founder J. Edgar Hoover, the FBI anted...
...wasn't used to this stuff--I grew up a couple of miles from Shea Stadium, named for a hotshot New York lawyer, ultramodern, no bleachers. General Admission filled with clean-cut cheerful-looking kids whose mothers encouraged them to play at Little League, but just so it didn't interfere with their schoolwork. I got my wallet stolen, once, and my program lots of times--but after all I never really scored properly, S's for singles and O's for outs, so that seemed only fair, apart from the thieves' being bigger and stronger than I was. Maybe...