Russell Baker | women
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Russell Baker | war
Strategic thinkers were naturally rattled to find this outsider fooling around with their work. They had been thinking strategically when Reagan was just another movie actor playing opposite a chimpanzee, for heaven’s sake. They think Reagan is too naive, too innocent, to grasp the intellectual complexities of cold war strategy.
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Russell Baker | war
Those who remember Washington’s cold war culture in the 1980s will recall the shocked reactions to Reagan’s intervention. People interested in foreign policy were astonished when in 1985 he met alone at Geneva – alone, not a single strategic thinker at his elbow! – with the Soviet Communist master Gorbachev.
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Russell Baker | society
Usually, terrible things that are done with the excuse that progress requires them are not really progress at all, but just terrible things.
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Russell Baker | smile
You can always tell folks from nonfolks. Folks like to feel good, like to smile for the camera when there’s a big photo opportunity for a really good cause.
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Russell Baker | science
Inanimate objects can be classified scientifically into three major categories those that don’t work, those that break down and those that get lost.
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Russell Baker | politics
Reporters thrive on the world’s misfortune. For this reason they often take an indecent pleasure in events that dismay the rest of humanity.
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Russell Baker | poetry
Anticipating that most poetry will be worse than carrying heavy luggage through O’Hare Airport, the public, to its loss, reads very little of it.
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