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...this hemisphere; these friends must negotiate the situations that the United States, while participating in them, cannot possibly negotiate for itself, and the negotiating parties--from Mexico and Venezuela, Panama and Colombia, tomorrow perhaps our great Portuguese speaking sister, Brazil, perhaps the new Spanish democracy, re-establishing the continuum of our Iberian heritage, and expanding the Contadora group--have the intimate knowledge of the underlying cultural problems...
...ABYSS DEEP ENOUGH: LETTERS OF HEINRICH VON KLEIST, WITH A SELECTION OF ESSAYS AND ANECDOTES; Dutton; 297pages; $16.95 PLAYS by Heinrich von Kleist; Continuum; 341 pages...
People begin drinking socially for a myriad of reasons, including, most notably, peer pressure. But the answer to one question remains elusive: Why do people become alcoholics? In the continuum from a few too many drinks at a party to loss of control over drinking, where is the trigger point? Vaillant says that it is impossible to say, but at some level the casual drinker becomes physiologically and psychologically addicted to liquor. "You are an alcoholic," says Vaillant, "when you're not always in control of when you begin drinking and when you stop drinking...
...Heckler Barney Frank race." By forcing Heckler to defend both sides of the fence she was straddling on the abortion issue, McCarthy made Heckler look like a hypocrite and watched her formerly automatic constituencies fade away. "The point that people are missing," Pierce adds, "is that elections are a continuum. What Bob McCarthy started in 1980 with abortion. Barney Frank did with the Reagan budget in 1982." For Heckler, who had survived both Republican and Democratic administrations since 1966. Barney Frank made Reagan and Heckler's support of his economic policies the issue...
...trouble is that there are often fundamental gaps in the knowledge, and of course, usually vast vacancies in the developmental and technological phases of it, so that a false continuum is produced. This occupational disease of the business planner, the production engineer or even the entrepreneur, must be treated decisively with the most modern therapy. It appears that we can progressively identify and perhaps even avoid these discontinuities by various ways of organizing knowledge so that the discontinuities are early recognized. Then perhaps they may even be pursued in academic context, or at least not ignored through to the time...