Word: approachement
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...grand compromise by inducing the Soviets to agree to significant cuts in offensive weapons in return for reinforcing old agreements that limit the development of defensive systems. Indeed, the Soviets have recently begun exploring ways to restrict SDI by reaffirming the ABM treaty of 1972. That approach has considerable promise since it is potentially compatible with Reagan's own public statements on SDI. Largely as a result of the quiet urging of British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and Secretary of State George Shultz, Reagan has said repeatedly that SDI is a research program being conducted within the bounds...
...Astrodome against missiles ''is not a short- term proposition, and it may not even be possible in the long term.'' Gerold Yonas, the chief scientist for SDI, was equally emphatic. ''The idea that we are going to protect all the people somehow with a perfect defense'' is the ''wrong approach.'' Instead, he argued, the goal is to make the Kremlin unsure that it could launch a strike that would knock out America's capacity to retaliate. The immediate goal of SDI, Perle agreed, is ''not the defense of the nation as a whole, not of every city and person...
...band. Musicians who fell short were subjected to ''the ray.'' ''He'd look over his glasses and stare at you --really nail you down with his eyes,'' remembers Vibraphonist Hampton, a member with Pianist Wilson and Drummer Gene Krupa of the seminal Goodman Quartet, which introduced a chamber-music approach to jazz. ''And all the time he'd be making some of the most difficult passages on his clarinet. He wouldn't stop playing, and he wouldn't stop glaring.'' Goodman's relentless drive had its roots in his impoverished childhood, for music was a passport out of the dark...
...military histories, bristling with regimental acronyms that only a quartermaster could love. (William B. Hopkins' forthcoming eyewitness account of the Marines at Chosin, One Bugle No Drums, published by Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, N.C., neatly avoids this trap.) Knox's book does not entirely forswear such an approach. But for the most part, the story is told in the unadorned, often eloquent words of the American dogfaces and grunts who fought there. The painfully complete, troop-movement-by-troop-movement narrative chronicles the war from its beginning to the Marines' heroic breakout at the frozen Chosin Reservoir...
...German notion of ''depth'' had no greater exponent than Schnabel. (A footnote in Schnabel's sonata edition could ramble for several inches discussing the difference between an appoggiatura and a semiquaver.) Yes, some of the runs in the ''Emperor'' are a bit mussy, but the pianist's earnest approach is informed by a proprietary affection for music. Schnabel's Beethoven doesn't smile very much, but then icons never do. + Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 5 (''Emperor''). Claudio Arrau, piano, with Sir Colin Davis conducting the Staatskapelle Dresden (Philips). The pedagogical grandson of Liszt (through his teacher in Berlin, Martin Krause...