Word: desiderata
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Even if a "good" arms-control agreement could be reached-one that lived up to the various desiderata of rolling back Soviet forces and allowing the U.S. to surge forward with its rearmament-there would still be reason for wariness about signing such a thing. Arms control inevitably induces a naive giddiness among Americans about the superpower relationship; it provides an alibi for not spending enough on defense. In that sense, arms control is ipso facto...
...election nights, Pierre Trudeau usually has an apt quote in his pocket from the popular homily Desiderata ("Go placidly among the noise and haste"). But for his moment of triumph last week he borrowed from Robert Frost. As the cheers welled around him, the once and future Prune Minister quoted from Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening: "I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep...