Word: entertainment
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...threat of an all-out strategic response, to leave open the "nuclear option"--and thus to avoid any arms control treaty which would outlaw nuclear war or eliminate nuclear weapons. As early as 1946, an important secret study prepared for Harry Truman concluded that the U.S. "should entertain no proposals for disarmament or limitation of armament as long as the possibility of Soviet aggression exists. Any discussion of the limitation of armaments should be pursued slowly and carefully with the knowledge constantly in mind that proposals on outlawing atomic warfare and long-range offensive weapons would greatly limit the United...
...Brandeis Frankfurter Connection. For all their machinations, both men emerge as wise and present leaders--men whose visions helped bring America Keynesian economics and compassionate social welfare policies, and helped give the world a Zionist homeland (thanks to their vigorous advocacy at home and abroad). Though Murphy refuses to entertain the possibility seriously, there is a place for informal judicial involvement in America's policy-making apparatus so long as judges steer clear of entanglement that could prejudice their decisions. For as the lives of Brandeis and Frankfurter show, judges often do wrong what is best for the nation...
Luciano's re-enactments are entertaining, but as with too much of everything, the anecdotes and one-liners grow a little weary. Pun and irony are about as complex as the material gets. (He tries to play mind games with himself sometimes. Luciano tells us, until someone reminds him he's playing with a handicap.) Stylistically, you or I could have written the book. Luciano (or Fisher) could have written something other than simple sentences, Noun, verb, object, there's little embellishment. The stories are meant to give pleasure on their own, and generally they do, but like a diet...
...terms of its ability to involve and to entertain Agnes of God deserves unstinting praise. The production is clean, neat and generally falls disappointingly short of its mark. Its full throated advocacy of faith and its lack of respect for ambiguity doom it to failure as a drama of ideas. The verdict of the fashionmonger on Agnes of God as a potential trend-setter should be negative. There may yet be life in the psycho-drama form, but it wants a Prince Charming, not this unevenly constructed work, to make it awaken...
...daughter. She once breast-fed her in a room beside a presidential banquet. Mr. Reagan signed a menu for the infant. Even board rooms contain more than the usual number of maternity business suits these days. The senior officers' dining room of a New York banking concern, where executives entertain clients at lunch, was recently over whelmed by pregnant women. Said one female executive: "They thought at first it was something in the coffee...