Word: brinksmanship
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...fact, it seems that the Nixon Administration has embarked on a new kind of Brinksmanship and that Congress has okayed a program whose ends are radically different from those it approved. At a recent press conference President Nixon dismissed the idea that Sentinel was intended "simply for the purpose of protecting ourselves against attack from Communist China." Secretary Laird, speaking of the impending missile discussion with Russia, said last week, "I think it's most important, as we go into these talks, to have defensive as well as offensive missile systems up for discussion, debate, and negotiation...
...Brinksmanship" by Ernest J. Wilson, one of two promising new writers on the Lampoon, contains clever characterizations of our favorite national heroes--Ike, McNamara, Rusk. The other rising light on the magazine is James T. Hill, who contributes a bizarre tale of a "former neo-Trotsktie" who goes "from Molotov to White House cocktails in one weekend with hardly a brainwash...
...trimester plan [March 11] may lead colleges to financial brinksmanship; this is for trustees to decide. What is more definite is that the system verges on academic bankruptcy. Students have no time to acquire perspective; they obtain a veneer of knowledge. The faculty suffers equally. An instructor may teach twelve courses in a calendar year on up to nine topics; he could not possibly do the reading required for top performance. One week between terms is grossly insufficient for "catching up." As for research, publication or public service, when would there be time...
Strike threats and angry words are all part of the traditional game of brinksmanship in steel talks, but the Administration, which had been buoyantly confident that a strike would never come off, was beginning to take them seriously. Lyndon Johnson put the squeeze on the negotiators, reminded them that both sides would suffer black eyes if a strike were called while "our boys are still fighting in South Viet Nam." He telephoned Abel and Cooper separately, told each that he wanted "a decent and responsible settlement." Said Abel: "We too have a responsibility-to our membership." At week...
There were the familiar complaints about the computerized life. Poet James Dickey warned at California's San Fernando Valley State College that, on the edge of the "anonymous modern abyss, you must develop your private brinksmanship, your strategies, your ruses, your delightful and desperate games of inner survival, whether they take the form of Batman comics or whistling Handel's Water Music, enabling you to live perpetually at the edge but very much on your own ground." It was Yale's President Kingman Brewster who perhaps best expressed the mood of the commencement speakers. After warning against...