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Despite the bumpy start and unavailability of some high-powered names, NBC will doubtless find an experienced, plausible news president. Many of the same people who described the job as horrendous would be ready to take it. Some insiders predict that the eventual choice will indeed be one of those who has already turned it down: Russert of Meet the Press. Whoever it is may find there are days where he shares the judgment of Everette Dennis, executive director of the Freedom Forum at Columbia University: "Taking that job would be like jumping onto a funeral pyre...
...that he would run "if I have to," that is, if Clinton and the Congress fail to meet the country's needs as Perot defines them. With Perot steadily fiddling with the criteria, he gives himself two happy options. If the economy prospers and the deficit shrinks, he will doubtless claim credit for having forced Washington to face reality. If Clintonomics flops, Perot will have created the * rationale for an I-told-you-so candidacy. Meanwhile, he is having a ball in his self-created role as agent provocateur...
...Croatia and the last hope of Albanian freedom in Kosovo. That's just the moral side of the problem.. The practical side is even scarier. If Bosnian turmoil continues, angry Muslim countries might send arms and probably soldiers to their fellow Muslims, where-upon resentful Russians will doubtless do the same for their fellow Slavs, the Serbs...
...further discussion of the O.A. is quite to the point--he himself realizes its superiority to any E., however A. His illustration includes one of the key "Wake Up the Grades" phrases--"It is absurd." What force! What gall! What fun! "Ridiculous," "hopeless," "nonsense," on the one hand; "doubtless," "obvious," "unquestionable," on the other, will have the same effect. A hint of nostalgic, antiacademic languor at this stage as well may match the grader's own mood: "It seems more than obvious to one entangled in the petty quibbles of contemporary Medievalists--at times, indeed, approaching the ludicrous--that smile...
...Doubtless such jargon has some use, if only to justify the employment of people whom previous centuries would have regarded as socially expendable. But the conjunction of cinemaspeak and jargonese can lead only to the gradual separation of the hemispheres of our brains, and an aching descent into complete madness. For they all say the same: we are what we speak; our language--its metaphors, implicit value judgments--inform our personalities. Caught between the Scylla of cliche and the Charybdis of suffix, our future personalities cannot but disintegrate into a stewing pot of confusion, from which we yearn to return...