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...detente may well be clever policy from a purely strategic viewpoint. And by opening new markets for the West, trade with the Soviets brings with it new jobs as well. Most fundamentally, the greater the interdependence between East and West, the less likely it becomes that one side will act aggressively toward the other. In the nuclear age, the importance of this last point needs no further explanation...
...information on a royal family preserving the aura of the kings and queens of old." For this week's cover, Cronin learned even more about perseverance by watching the watchers of the royals. "The Fleet Street reporters and photographers are a breed unto themselves," she reports, "devilishly competitive, clever and professional. The chase and the 'hit' [scoop] get their blood up." Cronin, who journeyed from Buckingham Palace to Acapulco last week in pursuit of the royal family, finds her fellow reporters' zeal, if not their perfervid imaginations, infectious. Says she: "I felt myself wanting a fast...
...disturbing element here, however, the one this story exposed to the air, is the implication that these processes, which satisfy that basic human desire and which do so by manipulating a basic human act, are merely mechanical, technologically clever, new testaments to American know-how. Pregnant women often joke gently about their offspring "in the oven," but in a joke-less context, where the baby in question is being cooked up on consignment, there is cause for real worry. With all the potential joys of scientifically created parenthood, the last thing one wishes to encourage is the impersonal approach. What...
There is, however, the occasional clever or intentionally funny letter to Harvard that restores, some faith in humanity The Harvard Gazette once had 1 photo of a Houston area development map which was using some Harvard Square area names for streets. An observant, clever, or bored writer indicated to the News Office that 10 of 15 of the Harvard names were on dead end streets...
Writers, artists and beauties flit through Quennell's pages like guests at one of Lady Ottoline Morrell's parties. Here is George Orwell, with his face of "haggard nobility"; Novelist Ivy Compton-Burnett, "clever, sharp-nosed, sharp-chinned, close-lipped"; and Rose Macaulay, telling a friend at the end of her life, "I think I'm going to die in a fortnight. When are you pushing off?" Quennell writes affectionately of Artist Augustus John, with his gypsy ways and tribe of illegitimate children; John was immensely popular in his heyday, yet "had nothing of the fatuous outward...