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...September 25 of the next year, the first group of junior fellows met for dinner in their Eliot House dining hall. There were six of them, all in their 20s, all chosen on the basis of their exceptional promise, not their past work. Today, members of that first set of fellows have gone on to become the Putnam Professor of Pure and Applied Mathematics, Garrett Birkhoff; the Pierce Professor Emeritus of Philosophy, Willard V.O. Quine; and the Pierce Professor Emeritus of Psychology, B.F. Skinner...
...their way to teach writing, one group of young brigadistas meet an old brigadista--one who had fought alongside Augusto Cesar Sandino in the late '20s and early '30s, one who had fought actual Yanquis and not just the products of our arms industry. The youngsters are fascinated, the toothless old man only too happy to answer questions like, "What did you do with the Yanquis when you caught them?" ("We let them go without their ears," he grins). You can either be amazed by the power of tyrants to hold out against suffering people, or the power of long...
...already in place, while the ones proposed for NATO are still in the testing stage. Second, there is a considerable disparity in the range and potency of the weapons involved. The new U.S. missiles carry only one warhead, as do the SS-4s and SS-5s. But the SS-20s are equipped to carry three warheads. Thus Reagan's proposal really calls for a trade-off of 572 American nuclear warheads for more than 1,000 Soviet ones. In his speech, Reagan claimed that the Soviets had a 6-to-1 nuclear advantage over the U.S. In doing...
...Europeans who initially urged the U.S. to develop and deploy the new missiles reasoned that they would offset the growing arsenal of intermediate-range Soviet SS-20s while giving the U.S. bargaining strength in any future arms negotiations. Beginning in 1977, Schmidt led the campaign for the Europeans. In so doing, he was trying to ensure that the U.S. would remain faithful to its pledge, made when the alliance was formed in 1949, to defend NATO's European members...
Considering that the members of the cast are in their late teens and early 20s, the evening is studded with exemplary performances. Lonny Price brings an agonizing honesty and the humorous, woebegone mien of Woody Allen to the role of Franklin's lyric-writing collaborator. Ann Morrison is perky and personable as an alcoholic film critic who relives her younger self as a smart, surging novelist...