Word: dismissals
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...would such a war start? Most experts now dismiss the once fashionable "bolt-out-of-the-blue" scenario. William Hyland, a longtime strategic specialist for the Nixon, Ford and Carter administrations and now a senior associate at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, fears that World War III might begin not as World War II did, with a Nazi blitzkrieg in the West and a Japanese sneak attack in the East, but as World War I did, with a combination of bumbling, inadvertence, events getting out of control and just plain bad luck. Says he: "If there is ever...
...educated women with access to contraception have such a high rate of abortion remains unanswered. Those who dismiss the need for birth control or who use contraception carelessly are largely responsible: so are the imperfections of all methods except sterilization. All women are vulnerable to unwanted pregnancy, and many will seek abortions regardless...
Even so, a number of economists do not dismiss out of hand the possibility of a depression. Those who use the term define it, quite imprecisely, as a prolonged period, perhaps two or three years, during which output and incomes shrink and business bankruptcies and unemployment rise to heights not seen since before World War II. Says Alan Greenspan, who was chief economic adviser to President Gerald Ford: "This scenario still has a low probability, but it should no longer be put into the bizarre or kooky category...
CYNICS COULD DISMISS a hefty proportion of literary criticism and philosophy as the creative artist's struggle--in vain, of course--to justify his adherence to the arts over the pressing issues of politics. The attempt to legitimize art, in a world increasingly skewed towards the political, the economic and the scientific, has assumed some strange configurations. There is the essentially Marxist-inspired vision of poetry as the picture of life after the Revolution; the poet, as Party servant, illustrates prophecies, bringing the dreamers' vision alive for the toiling workers. The same impulse can be detected in the Emersonian vision...
...more I thought about my Penn Station encounter, the more I had to dismiss the lock-em-up, cut-their-balls-off solutions so tempting during those first moments of rage. My assailant was a smoothie, not a thug. That was plain from the way he discreetly sidled up to me to show his gun, from his craftiness in taking only those items that could not incriminate him (no cards, just cash), and from his use of icy threats rather than force. No Hobbesian brute this--he seemed instead a rational, calculating man acting out of self-interest, not instinct...