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Since James Baker said that on a Texas turkey shoot shortly before he became Secretary of State, the Bush Administration's conduct of foreign policy has been scathingly criticized. The common complaint, thrown out again last week by House majority leader Richard Gephardt, portrays George Bush as a visionless bystander in a changing world. It is a cheap critique that misses the point. As American primacy recedes, the trick is to maximize U.S. leverage by crafting creative techniques for disparate situations...
King said yesterday White runs "a visionless and unethical administration...
...woman with a virtuous simplicity of instinct, properly oblivious to everything but the means to her end of maintaining the race;" Cybel is "an incarnation of Cybelle, the Earth Mother doomed to segregation as a pariah in a world of unnatural laws;" and last of all, Brown is "the visionless demi-god of our new materialistic myth--a Success--building his life of exterior things inwardly empty and resourceless...
Perhaps most remarkable in the case of Morgan is the refinement of taste which produced so intimate a collection, no less fine for its subdued key. So grotesque an aesthetic faux paus as the acquisitions of the William Randolph Hearst dynasty, or even as sincere but visionless an affair as the John Ringling Museum testifies to how far wrong the best intentioned affluence can go. But J. Pierpont Morgan, caring not at all for magnitude, sought quality alone...
...Neill's own version of George F. Babbitt is William A. Brown. He appeared for the first time in The Great God Brown (on the stage of the Greenwich Village Theater in 1926), an outwardly happy businessman ("the visionless demigod of our new materialistic myth-a Success"). His antagonist is an artistic soul both envied and victimized by Brown. The artistic soul cries out: "Why am I afraid to dance, I who love music and rhythm and grace and song and laughter? Why am L. afraid to live, I who love life and the beauty of flesh...