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...Nixon's latest attempt to explain away--and subsidize--his retirement years is not entirely without insight or interest. His paranoiac sliminess aside (a big aside). Nixon does evince some of the flashes of political acumen and pragmatic grasp of world affairs that surfaced from time to time during his shortened Administration. Thirty years of hobnobbing in the world's corridors of power have somewhat of a rubbing-off effect, as Nixon himself wouldn't hesitate to tell us: It sure beats some other forms of occupation, like acting for instance. But this is getting ahead of the game...
...analysis of reason for their success or failure. But the book rises and falls on the anecdotes Nixon tells about Churchill, Adenauer, Yoshida, et. al., This is a tactic that could--no, should--work; after all, where Nixon really can add to history, so to speak, is through piercing insight gained through personal encounters with the greats. But not-too-strangely enough, by the end of a given chapter on a leader, the numerous anecdotes weigh heavily. The purpose of Nixon's personal stories, it seems time after time, is not so much to illuminate these often mysterious characters...
...this century, the time lag between the creation of a new scientific concept and its general application has usually been measured in decades. Occasionally, however, the gap is compressed as a new theoretical insight moves swiftly to the stage of application and, hence, of wide, practical dissemination. We are now in the throes of such a movement in the vast field of applied research in genetic engineering...
...programmer at Apple. A company consultant, Guy Tribble, says that Jobs sets up what he calls "a reality-distortion field. He has the ability to make people around him believe in his perception of reality through a combination of very fast comeback, catch phrases and the occasional very original insight, which he throws in to keep you off balance." By whatever name?the dream, the Ditch, the rap, the reality-distortion field?fobs' unwavering ambition and ferocious will have caused a number of people to be come rich. Says Jobs, employing perhaps extravagant arithmetic: "We've made about 300 people...
...Jewish impotence): "Fidel [Castro] sits on the side of a tank rumbling into Havana on New Year's day... The tank stops in the city square. Fidel lets the gun drop to the ground, slaps his thigh and stands erect. He is like a mighty penis coming to life..." Insight into the confused thinking of men such as Rubin and Hoffman is valuable, but the authors do not adequately prove that Rubin's excesses were attributable to religion, merely because he once said as much. Nor do they convince the suspicious reader that radicalism was tied into an unusual version...