Word: cogently
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...role of elder internationalist. Now 69, Nixon is convinced that his accomplishments in foreign policy will vindicate his presidency. He is proudest of his role in renewing U.S. relations with China. His optimism on the future of Sino-American relations is based not only on nostalgia but on cogent analysis and firsthand experience. In Nixon's view, the resumption of negotiations between the People's Republic and the Soviet Union is not necessarily a cause for alarm. "What brought us and the Chinese together ten years ago-the Soviet threat-is greater now than before, and the Chinese...
...American people. However, with that alarm, the audience wants the news. In other words, Yergin and his co-authors have detailed the potential danger. Now, we want to know what we can do about it. They lay out a program, but it is not as comprehensive or cogent as their documentation of the problem. Yergin points to three main objectives: diversification of oil supplies, substitution by other energy sources, and energy conservation. The third goal is the basis for the book--what consumers and businesses with some government direction can do for themselves to help adjust. However, while that curbs...
...President and his right-wing unilateralist foreign policy advisors make some cogent points. The Russians are short of currency and have been desperately selling gold and diamond reserves. The pipeline would annually provide an estimated $10 million in hard currency once the gas began flowing west. Much of that will be used to prop up repressive satellites like Cuba and Vietnam and to purchase military hardware for ventures such as the Afghanistan takeover. A pipeline, Reagan argues correctly, would not only send badly needed currency to Moscow, but would also increase Western European energy dependence on the Soviets. Plans call...
...recent "Brass Tacks" editorial ("A Question of Tolerance," May 3, 1982). Paul Engelmayer strays from his usually cogent and well-reasoned style. The piece contains a number of factual errors concerning GSA's petition drive in response to the suggestion of E.L. Pattullo (Director, Harvard University Center for the Behavioral Sciences) that homosexuality be eradicated through the application of "negative social pressures" and, in addition, entirely ignores the chilling effect of such views on research in the three departments Pattullo overseas...
What is it about TV news that makes otherwise cogent screenwriters go bananas? Paddy Chayefsky lost his grip on dramaturgy when he constructed his Network. Now Richard Brooks (Elmer Gantry, In Cold Blood) heaves a harangue about world politics and the media, and it is one desperate muddle. Sean Connery plays a superstar reporter who bears messages not only to millions of viewers but, Haiglike, from heads of state to thugs of war. The fate of the world hangs in the balance. What does not balance is Brooks' Strangelovian mix of comic terror and terrorist comedy. Give him points...