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AMERICAN POLITICIANS rarely advance by dint of ideological purity. One campaign and they learn how to compromise; one term, and they learn to praise compromise as the essential virtue of those who would govern themselves. Paul Tsongas, who ten years ago served on the Lowell city council and now sits...
By realism, he means in most cases the maxims of America's Dwight Eisenhower: The Soviet Union is an aggressor power whose arms buildup we must match dollar for dollar or face extinction; people will only work if a monetary incentive exists; the realm of international relations must be dominated...
As outlandish, grotesque and sardonic as the world according to John Irving often is, it is also a world filled with compassion, joy and truth.
Theologian Karl Earth's last letters mix vitriol, compassion
The most remarkable feature of Ginzburg's narrative is the decency and kindness she encountered in the Arctic inferno. She describes the kinship that developed among political prisoners as "the strongest of all human relationships " citing innumerable examples of their virtually suicidal generosity to one another. Alongside her portraits...