Are you more likely to tolerate drivel than you were four years ago? I think the answer is yes. Four years of Reagan has deadened ...the senses against a barrage of uninterrupted nonsense.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Be careful about Burma. Most people cannot remember whether it was Siam and has become Thailand, or whether it is now part of Mala...ysia and should be called Sri Lanka.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
A "just war" is hospitable to every self-deception on the part of those waging it, none more than the certainty of virtue, under w...hose shelter every abomination can be committed with a clear conscience.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
There is never finality in the display terminal's screen, but an irresponsible whimsicality, as words, sentences, and paragraphs a...re negated at the touch of a key. The significance of the past, as expressed in the manuscript by a deleted word or an inserted correction, is annulled in idle gusts of electronic massacre.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Next week Reagan will probably announce that American scientists have discovered that the entire U.S. agricultural surplus can be ...compacted into a giant tomato one thousand miles across, which will be suspended above the Kremlin from a cluster of U.S. satellites flying in geosynchronous orbit. At the first sign of trouble the satellites will drop the tomato on the Kremlin, drowning the fractious Muscovites in ketchup.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »