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...have to be on the frontier issues any more." Thus the party is free to overhaul shopworn policies and get them in line with the demands and limits of the 1980s. "Voters want a balance between budget cutting and spending," says Washington Pollster Peter Hart. "They are looking for equilibrium. The trouble is that Democrats tend to fulfill one half of that equation and Republicans the other...
...effective against the British colonial rulers of India, but it is hardly applicable to the management of the Soviet challenge. Schell's position, like many others', seems to be that with the Soviet-American nuclear rivalry already at such grotesque levels of overkill, concepts of rough equivalence, equilibrium and stability lose all meaning. That proposition is highly debatable, yet Schell seems almost to take it for granted. While balance of power may be an old-fashioned idea, it can be argued to be all the more valid now that power is nuclear. Precisely because these arsenals must...
...typical Adams story rattles such a woman out of her hard-earned equilibrium and then studies her attempt to regain balance. In Legends, a sculptor submits to yet another interview about her love affair with a famous composer, long dead; this time the questions prod her into a painful re-examination of the past and, ultimately, to the realization that she has produced work of value on her own. In The Girl Across the Room, a woman in her late 60s sits in a hotel dining room in northern California and watches a young girl being fawned over...
Avoiding nuclear war depends on keeping a balance between the imperatives of American policy and various factors of international relations, particularly the U.S.-Soviet rivalry. While those international tensions cannot be eliminated, they can be, and have been in the past, kept in a state of overall equilibrium. But it is an equilibrium with an underlying paradox: by their very nature, nuclear weapons are military instruments too powerful and destructive to "solve," in any meaningful and positive sense, political problems that confront the U.S. and the Soviet Union. Yet they are also too pow erful...
Like the complex interactions within the atom, the volatile human forces at work on the planet earth may be able to maintain their dynamic equilibrium indefinitely. That will unquestionably require ever increasing wisdom and skillful management, as well as luck. Many more Americans are now beginning to think seriously about what used to be called the unthinkable. Insofar as this new wave of concern and activism about the single biggest threat facing mankind does justice to the complexity of the problem, and steers clear of simple-minded pseudo solutions, it may foster some of the prerequisites for survival. In which...