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Churchill appears underbriefed, garrulous, exhausted. One day he offered the Soviets access to the Mediterranean; on another he almost gave away the German fleet (then in British hands). Stalin comes carrying plans for a neo-czarist empire stretching across half of Europe. Dapper Harry Truman arrives with such members of his old Missouri gang as his "personal rascal," General Harry Vaughan...
Time on the Cross is heavily influenced, for example, by many of the conceptual biases of neo-classical economics, which are even more out of touch with the early nineteenth century than they are with the modern world. In the same way, many earlier historians of slavery were influenced by racism. These are the real problems. The muse Clio, to whom Barzun appeals, should be more tolerant of methods than either Barzun or Fogel, but far more attentive to preconceptions--aware still that history never embraces more than a small part of reality, and coupling whatever means of reason with...
This isn't just a race, it's Hobbesean men racing over and intersecting the fates of those poor Rousseauian slobs who made their pitiful bargain surrendering essential freedoms for the Social Security benefits of their Social Contract. Are these despicable men cousins of the NRA and Birchers, neo-Nazis ready to tromp on the right of the rest of the highway passengers to avoid the shock of a Traveco Mobile Home with mad dog Joe Frasson at the wheel rattling by their VW at 110 mph? Or are they sportsmen and liberators, by their brave example, putting their drivers...
...very similar to Aida. The only difference being that my lover is a girl. Well, I mean to say, the part is played by a girl. Actually, the one that I really love is not a tenor. It happens to be the bass, Maometto the terrible Turk. Neo-cle, who is from my country, he's a Greek and is a brave warrior that my father wants me to marry. She - uh, he - uh, it is played by Shirley Verrett. So it is no wonder that I prefer Maometto, who is played by Gus Diaz, with a gold lame...
...plan is also modeled on prevailing notions about existing economic structures throughout the report Bok refers to the "private sector" and the "public sector" in an almost grotesque parody of Harvard's adamantly neo-classical Economics Department. In the report's outline of a core curriculum for public leaders Bok includes "an exposure to economics" with an emphasis on training that "should enable students to analyze the role of incentives in influencing the behavior of individuals and institutions." There seems to be no room for Marxian economics in the program because the program simply reflects the status...