U.S. officials, after the disputed "snap" election of February 7 and massive street pro- tests. Weeks passed before he would begin to talk to newsmen in Honolulu. Marcos conceded, finally, that his days in the Mala- cafiang presidential palace were over. Speaking of Corazon Aquino, his successor, who had to deal with the problems Marcos left behind (including a $26 billion foreign debt and a Communist insurgency), the ex-President was patronizing: "Poor girl, she may have bitten off...
. Humorist Finley Peter Dunne's "Mr. Dooley" said that no one was sure if they were "islands or canned goods." One legend had President McKinley scur- rying to a globe to see where "those darned islands" were.
In reality, U.S. and European firms had established commercial houses there many decades earlier to trade for hemp. The isolation imposed by Spain continued to erode in the 19th century thanks to steamships, the Suez Canal, and the laying of submarine cables.
The...
. When independence came, in 1946, Quezon was in his grave. As forecast, Roxas was President, and he had much to ponder.
With the removal of U.S. authority, the Philippines had to for- mulate a government system that would respond not to the wishes of America but to its own needs. Filipinos had evolved a pattern of social relations pre-dating Spanish times that linked peasants and landlords in a mutually beneficial patron-client relationship. Central to it was a concept of mutual obligations known...
. He recognized his countrymen's love of fiery oratory, and he did not disappoint them.
The Filipino has lost his soul, his dignity, and his courage!" Ferdinand Marcos said. "We have ceased to value order." The gov- eminent was "in the iron grip of venality. Its treasury is barren, its resources are wasted.. .its armed forces demoralized." He would need help. "I ask for not one hero alone among you, but for many."
So began a 21-year drama that would culminate...
' national hero. He fos- tered the idea of a "Filipino" identity.
This book, published in America as The Subversive (Indiana, 1962, cloth; Norton, 1968, paper), and a previous novel, Noli Me Tangere (The Lost Eden, Greenwood, 1968), were written in Europe. There Rizal led the Propa- ganda Movement, a group of emigres who sought to "awaken the sleeping in- tellect of the Spaniard" to native ambi- tions. Biting portraits of life under Span- ish rule, the books were banned in the...
Fellows and staff of the Wilson Center
ALEXANDER POPE: Alexander Pope was born in London in 1688 A Life and died in Twickenham in 1744. The son of Maynard Mack a linen merchant, he was a hunchbacked Norton, 1985 dwarf with tubercular bone cancer. He was 975 pp. $22.50 prone to incessant migraines, and equally prone to enrage fools, since he could not suf- fer them gladly. He was also the greatest poet of his era, one of the three or four tow- ering eminences in the history of English lit- erature,...
Michael Mandelbaum, and "Lost Opportunities" Charles William Maynes, in Foreign Affairs (Soecial Issue 1985). 58 East 68th St.. New ~ork,N.Y. 10021.
Five years into Ronald Reagan's presidency, some observers have begun to suspect that the popular Chief Executive is just plain lucky.
Among them is Mandelbaum, research director of the Lehrman Insti- tute in Manhattan. Owing as much to good fortune as to good politics, the Reagan administration has pursued what he calls "the most successful...
Michael Mandelbaum, and "Lost Opportunities" Charles William Maynes, in Foreign Affairs (Soecial Issue 1985). 58 East 68th St.. New ~ork,N.Y. 10021.
Five years into Ronald Reagan's presidency, some observers have begun to suspect that the popular Chief Executive is just plain lucky.
Among them is Mandelbaum, research director of the Lehrman Insti- tute in Manhattan. Owing as much to good fortune as to good politics, the Reagan administration has pursued what he calls "the most successful...
William J. Breman, Jr., in The Pennsylvania Gazette (Feb. 1986), Univ. of Pa., 3533 Locust Walk, Philadelphia, Pa. 19104.
Justice Brennan, known for forging majorities during the Supreme Court's liberal era under Chief Justice Earl Warren (1953-69), has become a mi-nority voice under Warren Burger.
During the last five years, the 80-year-old Brennan has often publicized
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his opposition to the High Court majority's view of the death p...
judges on a panel deliver individual rulings), adopted the practice of issuing the Court's judg- ment in a single, presumably unanimous, opinion. Not surprisingly, Mar- shall's innovation did not please his fellow justices. 1805, the Court allowed formal dissents back into the official proceedings.
To Breman, the salient virtue of a dissenting opinion is its capacity to "ripen" into a majority opinion-no matter how long such maturation may take. In the case of Justice John Harlan's objection...