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...false sense of confidence may be fatal, warns Doty: "We now have a period of relative public confidence that nuclear war is not imminent. We are apt to lose the vision of how absolutely catastrophic nuclear war is." While there is no foolproof solution, the authors variously argue that the U.S. should greatly intensify its disarmament efforts, restrict its sales of nuclear reactors to unstable countries, and do its best to lift up poor societies...
Whitlock said he believes that the decision will "inevitably change the climate of discussion. When a meeting goes public people are not apt to speak up. There will be more prepared speeches and more work done in committee...
Occasionally Powers' exasperation and despair overcome him and his control slips. Then he is apt to plant heavy symbols: worms, lilies, a dead dove. But for the rest, he remains the creator of a small miracle: the only man besides John Updike who can write about salvation and damnation in a world rapidly becoming trivialized by loneliness and loss of ardor, a world with an end but no amen...
...feel kind of sorry, because she comes across as a daringly imaginative, unusual and likeable person. Lurie's memoir presents a well-rounded survey of Lang's life that runs through about a third of the book. It's a suspicious way to begin, as though you are more apt to develop an interest in Lang's writing if you've been enticed by her experiences. There is something intriguing about a person whose earliest love affair might have started with seduction by a Red Sox player in the front seat of a red convertible that his fans gave...
TIME states [Sept. 22] that busing has run "against the deepest instincts of a clear majority of whites and quite a few blacks." "Instincts" is hardly an apt description of racism, a learned behavior...