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There are pages and characters in Herbert Lobsenz' first novel (which won the $10,000 Harper Prize for 1961) that are not total losses. In Satry's brother Alonso. Author Lobsenz fashions a Don Quixote-cum-Candide whose pratfalls over the purity of his own logic attain a kind of tragic hilarity. Alonso is the puppet of his fate and a prototype of all the fanatically idealistic students who march and die in the streets...
Instead of asking for a numerical score, Brown and Cornell require students to take a year of literature after they attain an intermediate stage--comparable to French C or German C. The elementary language courses at Cornell differ from those in the College by running eight hours weekly, instead of three or four...
...Extended deterrence"--overwhelming military superiority--is a second approach. But, said Beer, the U.S. is unlikely to attain either "a first-strike capacity so great as to eliminate Russian retaliatory power, or a monopoly on anti-missile defense so perfect that we need not worry about Russian retaliation...
...four nuclear reactors in operation and will soon explode its first atom bomb. Once again, Moscow appeared to be trying to use the threat of China's nuclear potential to disarm the West, while simultaneously telling Peking that with just a few years' patience Communism could peacefully attain absolute military and economic superiority over the West...
William H. Meyor is a political anomaly. An articulate progressive in an often unintelligibly conservative state, he has managed to make his advanced ideas part of Vermont's everyday political discourse. A politician whose chief desire is to see the world attain peace with freedom, Meyer has expressed ideas that have been represented as ones which could lead to war. A man whose honesty no one questions, he has frequently been termed selfish...