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With Stockman's departure the President is losing the man most responsible for translating into reality his vision of a shrunken domestic role for the Federal Government and the last powerful crusader for drastic measures to reduce the deficit. Stockman combined an instinctive feel for fiscal policy, an unmatched understanding of budgetary fine print and a sharp sense of legislative tactics. His gutsy advocacy of severe cuts in politically sacred programs, ranging from school lunches to farm subsidies to military pensions, was often labeled draconian and infuriated members of both parties. Also unsettling, particularly to the President, was the blunt...
...unreasonable hills, proud of the slightly loopy beaux arts buildings and the great swaths of pastel houses, altogether seduced by its own fey charms. It follows that San Francisco has a powerful sense of how San Francisco ought to look, and the new ungainly downtown skyline offends that civic vision...
...most conspicuous and skillful example of a leftward tilt is the R.S.C.'s anti-imperialist version of Shakespeare's celebration of conquest, Henry V. This was the text that Laurence Olivier used on film to rally his countrymen to nationalistic zeal. But in Director Adrian Noble's post-Falklands vision, the play becomes a chronicle of doomed and bloody consequences of meddling abroad. In its most striking visual image, the names of the dead from the Battle of Agincourt are inscribed on a scrim resembling the Viet Nam memorial wall in Washington. This sobering reminder of the wages...
...could infect the almost magical aura from which he has drawn his political power. It could perhaps shift at least a portion of national stewardship to others less serenely self-assured. Reagan has always been more guiding spirit than hands-on manager, but now even the vigor of his vision will be examined more critically, unjustifiably perhaps, but inevitably...
...have the power to wield nuclear weapons. What he saw after Hiroshima was a revolution in world politics and in the nature of the presidency. The fourth is a view of how the Bomb affected American thought and culture. What the people saw after Hiroshima was a fearful vision of the future...