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He characterized Reagan as a "reluctant president" whose administration has been marked by "endless self-congratulation." He accused the administration of foillowing an entirely short-term policy.
It is perfectly American to run between extremes of self-loathing and self- congratulation. Americans have a manic habit of thinking that they are either the best of peoples or the worst of peoples. This may result from the fact that Americans tend, still, to hold a Ptolemaic rather than...
"It was the end of an era of smugness and security and self-congratulation," says William L. (Jacobson) Tynan '61. In the happy-go-lucky days of the Eisenhower era, the Class of 1961 was incensed by a $250 tuition hike from the original $1000 a year fee. In the...
Since the Soviet party congress in February, three East European countries have had their own meetings. At the first congress in Czechoslovakia last month, Gustav Husak, 73, signaled that no winds of change would be blowing through his regime anytime soon. Echoing Gorbachev, Husak inveighed against mismanagement, but his dominant...
That observation was underscored by the international response to Marcos' re-election, which ranged from lukewarm to hostile. In 1981, when Marcos defeated a little-known challenger, he received 28 official letters of congratulation from leaders around the world. This time only the Soviet ambassador conveyed his best wishes. Several...