The News of the World troubles.
Did Eisenhower forget world troubles at Augusta, the first President Bush at Kennebunkport, Truman at Key West, F.D.R. at Hyde Park, L.B.J. at his ranch?
The decision by the magazine, which is published by a Met fund-raising affiliate, the Metropolitan Opera Guild, and which freely reviews companies around the world, troubles some opera experts.
"The event was one of the most dramatic and tragic events of our lifetime, but the lack of empathy and assertive action for the other acts of terrorism and humanitarian disasters around the world troubles me," he says of the work.
What is in question is not respect for America as such or the attractiveness of American society but the depth of Washington's foreign policy engagement in world troubles and the credibility of its commitments.
The problem of selective reasoning extends beyond literary blather into real world troubles when self-appointed acolytes of Ayn Rand inject her simplistic self-righteousness into things like the budget of the United States of America.
