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Since its start in 1972, Ms. Magazine has received an overwhelming response from its readers, Pat Carbine, publisher and editor-in-chief of the magazine, said yesterday, nothing that over 20,000 readers responded to the first issue alone. The first letter published--which Carbine read aloud at the press conference--was a response to an article by Horner entitled "Why I Fear Success," she added...
LITERATURE IS LANGUAGE. Drama is personal contact. Though many times the twain meet nicely, certain books aren't meant to be spoken aloud, certain plays shouldn't be read. Reading a Moliere farce, for example, means condemning your mind to an endless purgatory of Punch-and-Judy beatings and convoluted accusations of cuckoldry. The lines aren't literary. By themselves, they're not even particularly funny. The play works as comedy only by transcending the meaningless quips to reach the lasting humor beneath...
...coherent foreign policy. Compounding the problem were conflicting statements from Washington on sensitive nuclear policy issues. Hawkishly, Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger announced that the U.S. would build a neutron warhead; Secretary of State Alexander Haig immediately noted that no decision had been made to deploy it. Reagan mused aloud to a group of newspaper editors at the White House about a possibility that Western allies dread: a limited nuclear war fought on European territory. Said he: "I could see where you could have the exchange of tactical weapons against troops in the field without its bringing either...
...each afternoon. He avoided paperwork, preferring to deal with the broad picture and leave the details to his subordinates. He was so averse to reading official documents that when Cyrus Vance brought him Jimmy Carter's invitation to Camp David, Sadat asked Vance to read it to him aloud...
...services over the next four years. Since the early days of Reagan's campaign for the presidency, critics have wondered how he could meet his promise to cut taxes, boost military spending and still balance the federal budget. By last week Reagan and his closest advisers were wondering aloud themselves. The expected deficit in the coming fiscal year was growing and projections for fiscal 1983 and 1984 were worse. All but the most optimistic supply-side economists were predicting that Reagan would have to sacrifice one of his goals to preserve the others. That dilemma was debated...