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...against reverses. He is likely to be a moralist rather than an ideologue-a Ralph Nader instead of a Mark Rudd. Because he combines pragmatism, idealism and creativity, he can accept life's ambiguities-and then synthesize them into surprising new patterns. In Doer, wrath at the status quo translates into useful social action. In the revolutionary, it accummulates; unable to find release, it bursts into antisocial violence...
Furthermore, it is important at this point to be blunt and honest about what we mean by "reason" and pragmatism. If your definition of them somehow extends a blanket approval to current status-quo foreign policy, to the "responsibility of power," and to anti-communist assumptions, then we are not talking about the same animal. For me, reason and rationality are useful intellectual tools for uncovering the truth and for thinking effectively. Reason has never been for me an end-all, be-all sort of thing: when rationality and pragmatism gain too iron a hold over my life, then...
...level to those immediately below him on the scale. This tendency is evident today as many blue-collar union workers support George Wallace in a desperate attempt to deprive the Negro and Puerto Rican of the same benefits they now enjoy. These newly self-appointed guardians of the status quo would do well to remember from whence they came...
...Soviet bluster obviously is intended for consumption in Eastern Europe, where rantings against West Germany may help divert attention from the Soviet occupation of Czechoslovakia. But the Soviets undoubtedly hope to accomplish more than that. In their view, West Germany represents the chief threat to the status quo in Eastern Europe, and behind much of the Soviet hostility lies the success of West Germany's Ostpolitik. Until two years ago, the West German government refused to have any political dealings with the Communist countries in Eastern Europe, a rigid cold war stance that suited the Krem...
...supersonic-transport tickets and ways to meet growing competition from non-IATA charter airlines. The outcome of the major issue-fares-remains unsettled, but the U.S. lines are given little chance of winning their long-sought reductions. Other carriers, complaining of higher costs, are firm for the status quo...