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WordsWorth Readings--presents Dr. Helen Caldicott, co-founder of the Physicians for Social Responsibility on her new book, "If You Love This Planet: A Plan to Heal the Earth." Tuesday, April 7. 5:30 p.m. Brattle Theatre, 40 Brattle St., Harvard Square...
Coles gently hints at this danger in a discussion of the phenomenon of "denial" or "psychic numbing," which appears in much of the literature on psychology and the bomb, and which is cited by leading disarmament advocates like Dr. Helen Caldicott as an explanation for why some people don't seem to be all that fazed by our nuclear arsenals. The implication of this analysis, Coles writes, is that certain people are not facing up to the reality of the nuclear arms race, and have instead "resorted to what are often called 'primitive psychological defense mechanisms,' presumably unworthy of intelligent...
...blow-job as a metaphoric image of mankind's embrace of the nuclear warhead, the psycho-sexual elements of penis-envy described by peace activist Helen Caldicott, is matched by Rick and his friends' contradictory vision of the female. Rick cheers when the auto-mechanic raises a toast to "women with big tits" but through deep self-examination is led to reject the ephemeral and ultimately self-destructive zeitgeist of his own sex drive (read: the arms race...
When Dr. Helen Caldicott, one of the leaders of the anti-nuclear movement, appeared at the Quincy House Dining Hall earlier this spring, "she got a polite round of applause from some of the people there--half the people didn't even turn around to stop eating," says Steven R. Swartz...
...gone wrong in the twentieth century--namely, two world wars--Europe has got ten the short, sharp end of the stick. Screwing up has a different meaning for them (By the way, that's part of why they have a real peace movement and we have, oh, Dr Helen Caldicott, who writes books with titles like "Missile Envy." Bless her motives, though...