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WALKING down a headquarters hall or a ghetto sidewalk, his gait halfway between a lope and a swagger, Tom Reddin looks every inch the Compleat Policeman. If his huge hands, barrel chest and easy Irish smile do not betray his occupation, his glib, salty speech is unmistakably that of the lawman...
...about his personal travails. He devotes much space to his trips to post-revolutionary Russia in 1920 and his disillusionment there: "Cruelty, poverty, suspicion, persecution, formed the very air we breathed ... I felt that everything that I valued in human life was being destroyed in the interests of a glib and narrow philosophy." Of his stay in prerevolutionary China in 1920-21, he writes: "It must be said that bad government seems somewhat less disastrous in China than it would be in a European nation, but this is perhaps a superficial impression which time may correct...
...first time around, Arias was evicted for writing a tough, totalitarian-style constitution that threatened to turn Panama into a fascist state. Eighteen months into his second presidency, he was toppled again for organizing his own secret police and once again trying to install his totalitarian constitution. Though as glib and charismatic as ever, Arias claims that times have changed and he has changed with them. As a start, Arias has organized a strong, five-party coalition, recruited some able talent for his government, and drafted the rudiments of a program calling for tighter tax collections, a much-needed plan...
...think that people should be required to debate in order to have a right to recruit at Harvard, for the proposal may encourage the glib and inhibit the different--and not at all the dishonest. And I continue to belive that students should fight the evils of society directly in the society, as a great many have done and are doing now, taking universities and even Harvard with less solemnity as the measure of all ideals, the forum for all polemics. David Riesman '31 Henry Ford II Professor of Social Sciences
...frozen in a photograph; continuous in life. The experience of photography involves only one sense; the experience of life involves all. Such differences between photographic reality and actual reality lead Sontag to conclude that "surrealism is at the heart of the photographic enterprise"--not in the sense of the glib, self-conscious surrealism of one branch of photography, but in the very activity of presenting a reality of a very different order from conventional reality, a reality apprehended through a different scheme of time and sense. Sontag finds it ironic and erroneous that this most surreal of all media...