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341 CHRONICLESndine in your own country has made then”world” a better place. There is no suchnentity as the “world” — only othernnation-states that have gained at yournexpense.nManufacturing Matters is an attemptnby two Berkeley University ofnCalifornia economists to shake Americanout of the complacency of then”invisible hand” approach to internationalntrade. Manufacturing is the centralnfront in the global...

current policies which have raised thencost of capital to business, increasedntaxes on industry, and promoted laborintensivengrowth with stagnant productivity.nIt is ironic that American competitivenessnhas declined under ansupposedly pro-business administration.nYet, the “supply-side” failure to live upnto its billing stemmed from too narrow anfocus on individual tax rates, a factornwith weak and indirect links to savingsnand business...

Mies’s first ventures into architecturenwere free-lance commissions tonbuild homes. He soon secured a positionnwith Peter Behrens, one of Germany’snleading young architects andnan advocate oiSachlichkeit. Behrensnbuilt public architecture — factoriesnand pavilions — and in his ofEce Miesnheard the other young architects discussnhow industrialization affected artnand society.nIn 1913, Mies married Ada Bruhn,nthe daughter of a wealthy inventor....

401 CHRONICLESnLetter From thenHeartlandnby fane GreernAuguries of the End of InnocencenMy first-grade son was recently bittennin the arm by an exuberant classmate.nLuckily (said his principal) my son wasnwearing a heavy jacket, and the boy’snteeth didn’t puncture his skin: “Humannbites are even more dangerous thanndogs’, you know,” she reminded me.nYes, I’d read that, and agreed that...

give just about anything for the returnnof the innocent good old days when Inwould have had the luxury of talking tonmy children about self-respect and responsibilitynand mere propriety. Now Inhave death always at the back of mynmind. Shall I let them be innocent anlittle longer? Will it kill them? There isngoing to be Hell to...

421 CHRONICLESnterton, has observed that in a secularnage people don’t believe nothing, theynbelieve anything. The book our groupnwas supposed to be discussing begannwith a great deal of blather about whatn”modern man” would and would notnbelieve. Its version of modern man wasnheavily influenced by 19th-centurynscientism; he looked, as a matter ofnfact, rather like a Continental theologian.nBut...

1,000 rubles is owed, so each brothernreceives 700-800 paper rubles, up ton1,000 in a good year. That is yournbasic capital.n”Apart from the sorrow induced bynthe realization that a son does not valuenthe labors and cares of his late parents,nwishing to squander everything theynhave suffered for one year after leavingnschool and God only knows in thenname...

44 / CHRONICLESnSCREENnSiren Songnby Katherine DaltonnI’ve Heard the Mermaids Singing;nwritten and directed by PatricianRozema; Vos Productions.nShall I part my hair behind?nDo I dare to eat a peach?nI shall wear white flannelntrousers, and walk upon thenbeach.nI have heard the mermaidsnsinging, each to each.nI do not think that theynwill sing to me.n”My theory,” says Patricia Rozema, “isngood...

46 I CHRONICLESna time, the triumph of socialism makesntruth and meaning as publicly visible asna May Day parade or an editorial innPravda.nJesus similarly refused to put everythingnon public display. He warned Hisndisciples not to “cast pearls beforenswine” while repeatedly urging thosenHe healed not to publicize what Henhad done for them; He cautioned Hisnapostles not to...

their audiences so persistently that it isnhard to understand why Dante putnflatterers in the eighth circle in hell —nalthough as newsmen and personalitiesngo to their reward, that neighborhoodnis bound to decline.nAs cable television and VCR technologyncreate ever more viewing opportunities,nas TV cameras multiply inncourtroom and in legislative chamber,nas schools create “media literacy”ncourses, as universities and...

Or, if you prefer, take TWO free. Valuesi to $69.95n2730 THE CONSERVATIVE MEND – RussellnKirk. New 7th Edition of “the best and clearest expositionnof the conservative philosophy.”—James J.nKilpatiiclc. $19.95n2550 WITNESS – Whittaker Chambers. Eloquentnautobiography of the man who spied for Stalin,nrepented and became America’s chief anti-nCommunist wimess. $17.95n2201 WEALTH AND POVERTY – GeorgenGilder. “So grand...

4 I CHBONICLESnThe Yalta agreement to give awaynEastern Europe and Operation Keelhaul,nwhich forcibly “repatriated” Russiansnand non-Russians to Stalin’sntender mercies, were the end of a warnthat began as an effort to preserve thenfreedom of Poland. Much of the detailsnof the sell-out are known, butnmuch still remains hidden. Foremostnamong those who have attempted tondrag the subject out...

dropped by the Allies in favor of Tito,nin a bid to mollify Stalin and ensure an”stable” Balkans. American credits andnaid keep pouring into Yugoslavia, severalnbillion dollars per annum, regardlessnof widespread arrests, intimidation,nand persecution of all Yugoslavs notneager to toe the party line.nTo Yugoslavs, grown cynical afternYalta and the 40 years of their “differentnCommunism,” what is...

6 I CHRONICLESnPERSPECTIVEnTHE STATECRAFT OF STOOGESnby Thomas FlemingnThe speaker of the House of Representatives negotiatesncordially with a Marxist dictator at the very time whennthe American government is sending aid to an armednresistance movement fighting to overthrow his regime; anpolitical preacher flies to the Middle East and discusses thenmost sensitive foreign policy issues with unfriendly heads...

war and the giving of aid and comfort to enemies. Thisnrestraint is a marked departure from the British legalntraditions in which the Framers were educated. The treasonnstatutes of Britain included not only such obvious crimes asnany intent to kill, wound, or imprison the king or his heirs,nand any attempt to depose him or levy war...

out large regions. The reapportionment cases upset ancientnpolitical arrangements. The school prayer cases banished anpractice familiar to generations of students. Each made oursna very much more human society, more equal, freer, andnmore respectful of individual dignity. Each was in keepingnwith the main currents of American history. Yet thenresulting politicization raises concerns about the institutionalncosts of...

10 I CHRONICLESnpowers. What happens when Plato’s millennium of thenphilosopher kings actually arrives, I am not sure.”nThe basic principle is obvious enough: Power makesnright, as Thrasymachus put it; or as America’s liberal judgesnput it today, when they are as honest as Neely, the meaningnof the law is what judges say it is, until someone exertsngreater...

tions” of the Senate over Professor Bork’s nomination — is ancircus of political factionalism. The decisions on the SupremenCourt are now being made by the collusion ofnspecial-interest groups and politicians frothing at the microphonesnfor the sake of votes. The political factionalism innsome instances is so rank and so obvious that some of thenpoliticians have literally...

O” or “Use, She-Wolf of the S.S.” The District ofnColumbia City Council quickly developed legislation tonforbid video stores from releasing information on the filmsntheir patrons rent, and given the probable tastes of MayornMarion Barry and the several members of his administrationnwho have been jailed for corruption since he entered office,nthe legislation was probably wise.nThe other...

14 I CHRONICLESnthe rules of law.” He defended this proposition withnreference to John Locke’s precepts on the “power to actnaccording to discretion for the public good, without thenprescription of law and sometimes against it,” and by citingnAbraham Lincoln’s multifarious wartime violations of lawnand Constitution, which show that “Somewhere in theninterstices of the Constitution, apparently —...

Nor is the appeal to Justice Sutherland’s opinion in U.S.nV. Curtiss Wright Export Corporation a sound basis for thendoctrine of executive supremacy. Raoul Berger, after anthree-page scrutiny of the decision in his Executive Privilege,nconsiders that “the mischievous and demonstrablynwrong dicta of Justice Sutherland deserve no furtherncredence,” though he devotes another six pages to itsnpulverization. The...

authoritarian societies, is crisis-oriented by its very nature,nwhich is only to say that in it establishments of power andnprivilege are constantly and excitingly open to challenge. Innsuch a political environment, a certain dependence on crisesnis inevitable and even desirable, and the inability often tondistinguish between small and big crises is, for better ornworse, part of...

181 CHRONICLESnWar Generationsnby Gavin EwartnYouth’s uniform was smartishnand tartish were our thoughts,nthere were too many Ought-nots;nwe hked instinctual Oughts.nThou shah not seemed quite boring,nlike snoring, irksome too —na thing that older peoplenseemed most inclined to do.nYet six years’ war came bubblingnand troubling all our lives,nas hot as hell and sharpernthan pointed butcher’s knives.nWe lost our...

awarded an honorary degree by the Catholic University ofnSacred Heart in Milan because, in the opinion of a HolynOffice cardinal, Maritain was not sufficiently orthodox.nThe so-called heresies of Americanism and Modernismnat the turn of the century are classic examples of hownunanticipated crises can arise when an inordinate fear ofncrisis takes over in an institution. Analogously,...

inevitable consequence of this is the formation of a presidentialncommission. And as we can see, this has alreadyntaken place, with the attendant bickering over the compositionnof the commission consuming most of the time andnenergy of the trouble-shooting body. At a more proximatenlevel, a somewhat typical plea to “do something” wasnregistered in an issue of The...

22 I CHRONICLESnadditional funds for medical research.nThis is only a brief overview of the extremes of policynresponses to AIDS, which does not remotely exhaust ournapproaches. The options between these two poles arennumerous and are largely put forth by serious people. Butnour concerns here should be less the issue of AIDS than thenproblems which constantly, consecutively,...

with the AIDS virus, while 43 percent said that they shouldnnot. And on the question of responsibility, the public view isnthat 45 percent agreed that most people with AIDS havenonly themselves to blame, while only 13 percent disagreed.nAnd on the crucial statement “I sometimes think that AIDSnis a punishment for the decline in moral standards,”...

public morality in the emergence of AIDS as a nationalnproblem.nMoral discourse in the United States tends to be framednin terms of interest, purpose, and preference — that is,nstructurally. But phenomena like the AIDS epidemic arenlikely to refocus our understanding of public morality in atnleast two respects: One, they will shift the center of gravitynfrom moral...

transactionnLegitimacy & Forcen(IN TWO VOLUMES)nSTATE PAPERS AND CURRENT PERSPECTIVESnJeane J. KirkpatricknLegitimacy and Force, Volumes One and Two are thenstate papers ot Jeane J. Kirkpatrick as the United StatesnPermanent Representative to the United Nations. Thenvolumes features all of the ambassador’s UN andncongressional testimonies, addresses, speeches andnstatements and a broad selection of speeches onninternational affairs and human...

Goetz’s victims — sympathy for thenunderdog—was therefore automatic.nMoreover, under New York’s verynstrict gun-control laws, Goetz had nonright to own a weapon at all. AndnGoetz himself soon admitted thatnthere was no specific life-threateningngesture that had caused him to haulnout his revolver — just “the generalnsituation” he had found himself facingnin the subway car.nSo what gave him...

281 CHRONICLESnfair shake. Everything Goetz has everndone — and I mean everything — isngiven a negative twist. For instance,nafter he graduated from NYU in 1971,nGoetz worked as a nuclear engineernfor Westinghouse Corporation. Therenhe complained constantly at the wayncorners were being cut in the manufacturingnof nuclear reactors; he wasneventually fired, essentially for being an”whistle-blower.” In the...

actions of the four youths and begannblasting away at a group of essentiallyninnocent people who had done nothingnto him and intended to do nothingnto him.nLillian Rubin, for one, has nondoubts that the intentions of the fournyouths were essentially innocent andnpeaceable, and that their actionsnwere — at the very worst—only mildlynprovocative (but enough to set off,...

30 I CHRONICLESnhim up and rob him — is likely to havenbeen accurate. And we do know whonthese people were. Given the factsnabove, it seems to me that the burdennof proof must rest heavily on thosenwho would deny that Goetz got thingsnperfectly right.nAnd there’s even more evidencenhere. Darrell Cabey told columnistnJimmy Breslin that the youths...

321 CHRONICLESnBut all the while most of thenlocal folk had also clung tontraditional securities—thencountry home, the little farm,nthe garden and animals — evennas they ventured out to minenand mill. Keeping and usingnthe land and domesticatednbeasts were prudent in annuncertain world, as well as verynold habits. Then during thenearly 1960’s something verynquiet and profound happened.nIt became...

approved agenda is “an intellectualninterventionist,” or worse. Kirby’s oddndigression on John Powell leads to annobtuse dismissal of the VanderbiltnAgrarians as “eccentric reactionariesnwho condemned the city and factorynand ignorantly celebrated an idyllicnrural tradition.”nAnyone anticipating an account ofn”rural worids lost” will be disappointednby Kirby’s rendering of women —nthose repressed, suppressed, oppressednvictims obviously had everything tongain from birth...

West after prolonged absence in ordernto restore the ofEce of the Tsar. Vitalynsimply cannot understand why thenvery elderly leaders of the EditorialnCommission are so concerned aboutn”improving” a work of fiction.nIt turns out that the State EditorialnCommission censors no writers. Theynmay write whatever they wish — onlynnone of it can be printed. In fact, therenare whole...

Letter FromnEastern Europenby Rolf DammannnLet’s Go PolandnConversations with those who haventraveled throughout the Eastern Blocnreveal that group tours, not solo travel,nare the rule rather than the exception.nFor a hefty fee, vacation moguls willnrelieve the prospective tourist of threenmajor brain drains: consular relationsn(visas), hotel accommodations, andntransportation. Group tour-guides willnprovide the serious history enthusiastnwith spectacular points of...

381 CHRONICLESndiers and a handful of patrons in civilianngarb.nAlthough we didn’t seem to attract anlot of attention from the soldiers, wenwere immediately engulfed by a swarmnof greenback hunters mumbling somethingnabout “Lincoln” and “Washington.”nAfter we placed an order for twonbottles of beer and a like number ofngreasy fowl dishes, two soldiers saunterednover to the table, relieved...

Letter From anLegislaturenby Ron GamblenColor-Coding the PennsylvanianPension FundnRepresentative Ron Gamble’s speechnon the floor of the Pennsylvania Housenof Representatives against legislationnto divest Pennsylvania pension fundsnfrom South Africa:nI oppose this legislation wholeheartedlynbecause state government has nonbusiness dealing with foreign policy.nHowever, if we are going to initiate anforeign policy based on compassion fornour fellow man, let’s do it...

401 CHRONICLESnrepugnant. The Pennsylvania Housenof Representatives is not the body tonaddress these foreign policy problems,nbut since we have taken this uponnourselves, let’s address them all—let’snnot be hypocritical — let’s not benintimidated — let’s be fair — let’s bencompassionate to all the suppressednpeople of this world. To the supportersnof the South African package, let’snerase any doubt...

preen themselves. But not in MountainnCity.n* * *nWe’re not crazy about it here in ChapelnHill, either. Last September ourn21,000-seat gymnasium, often usednfor rock concerts, was the site of annalleged debate among the Democraticnpresidential candidates. When it wasnannounced that the seven (at thatntime) dwarfs were coming, the universitynnews bureau got calls asking whatnkind of music the...

421 CHRONICLESnTrust Fund comes from highway users.nNo matter where you drive, or whatnthe state motor fuel taxes are there,nyou pay a federal tax of nine cents angallon when you buy gasoline, 15ncents a gallon for diesel, and threencents a gallon for gasohol. (There’s ansix-cents-per-gallon federal tax exemptionnon gasohol, which is another storynitself) The money goes...

mobbed: here, ladies’ belts with goldnand silver buckles are snapped up likensouvenirs at an Oriental bazaar, at two,nthree, eight thousand dollars apiece.nDemand exceeds supply, no time fornquestions or answers. Elsewhere, anstranger wants to spray me with perfume.n”If you spray me, I’ll scream.”nShe doesn’t care.nAnother party, this one given bynDonald and Ivana Trump at the Towernof...

44 I CHRONICLESnwill consider myself kidnapped. “Nobody’sntrying to kidnap you, sir,” thenstewardess reassures me. “Look, theynare only trying to do their job,” says andynamic executive in the next seat,n”Go ahead and sit down.” I insist on anwritten acknowledgment of my letternby the crew. The plane returns tonthe gate. A hundred businessmen unbuckle.nTELEVISIONnA Week in the...

and Mets. Since I love the Cubs andndetest the Mets, I feel a strong obligationnto watch this game. During ancommercial I switch channels andncatch five minutes of something callednGrowing Pains. A kid is learning anlesson about life from his father. Ornperhaps the father is learning a lessonnabout life from his kid. Or perhapsnboth. The show...

46 I CHRONICLESn”spoof” of the Iran-contra hearings.nDon’t ask.nI now have watched “comedy” fornhours and feel starved for laughs. Atnthis point I would convert from whitento whole grain bread and give upnCoca-Cola if I could just see CarynGrant and Katharine Hepburn in ThenPhiladelphia Story. They never madenjokes about premenstrual syndrome.nFRIDAY —The time: the 50’s.nThe place: Hollywood....

STAGEnA Distant Passionnby David KaufmannLanford Wilson is consistently givennthe respect reserved for “great” Americannplaywrights, but the distinction is andubious honor at best. Each Wilsonnpiece is overly scrutinized and judgednultimately as being a notch below whatnit might have been. Revivals of earliernneglected works become causes forncelebration, but here too, there is alwaysna danger that the earlier...

48 I CHRONICLESnIllinois to develop multilayered conflicts,nincluding a clash between thenscientific community and commercialnenterprise (archaeology versus a touristnretreat). But the beauty of this workn(which Clive Barnes called “one of thenmost complex and rewarding of allnWilson’s plays”) is how the charactersnmirror their scientific and social discoveries.nThe most well-received revival,nhowever, was the 1984 comeback ofnSerenading Louie (another...

With that last remark, Rich hasninadvertently struck the thrust of Wilson’snsmoldering drama. If Burn Thisncould be reduced to a single message,nit would be about the lack of passion inncontemporary life and the difficulty innachieving passion in our overly cynicalnclimate. Although the passion at thencenter of Burn This seems ambivalentnand diffused, the evidence suggestsnthat is precisely...

SO I CHRONICLESnAnna’s description of the Pennsylvanianattic-room she spent the night of Robbie’snfuneral in is not only poetic, it isnalso an organic metaphor. She describesna mass of butterflies, capturednand pinned on the walls by Robbie’sncousin: “They were pinned, eachnwing, around the walls.” As she wasntrying to fall asleep, she’d heard “thisnintermittent soft flutter sound” andnrealized...