Word: essayed
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...your article "The Case Against Star Wars Weapons" [ESSAY, May 7], Strobe Talbott takes the position that we do not have the ability to create and perfect a Star Wars system. This view does not recognize America's ability to bring about technological marvels. Talbott himself points out a reason for expanding our research into areas that would render nuclear weapons useless. He says the Soviets "have been experimenting vigorously" in the same area. Can we afford to wait and see if their system works...
Your otherwise brilliant Essay on Star Wars weapons is fatally flawed by the omission of one critically important fact: the Soviet Union launched a crash program 14 years ago to develop space-age weaponry, notably particle and laser beams designed to melt ICBMs in their silos or in flight. If the U.S.S.R. is first with this type of capability, would the Kremlin not use its monopoly to impose its political objectives on earth? We cannot assume that Moscow would behave the way the U.S. did when it enjoyed an atomic monopoly for a brief period after World...
...essay written in 1973, Author Gore Vidal sulfurously surveyed the ten novels then reclining on the New York Times bestseller list. Some of these smash hits were forgettable even then, but Vidal's remarks about them were sensible and funny enough to survive. He looked askance at the woman who had given her account of the courtship of Joseph and the Virgin Mary: "It is difficult to know what, if anything, she had in mind when she decided to tell the Age-Old Story with nothing new to add." He deplored Trevanian's habit, in The Eiger Sanction...
Your penetrating article about society's touchiness [ESSAY, April 23] pinpoints how lobbyists attempt to substitute unrealistic, idealized images of their clients, whether they be the elderly, ethnics, gays or whatever. To the list you cited you might have added two more: the use of the word "special" to describe children with mental or emotional problems. What does that make the rest of the world's youth? Ordinary? The other is the reference to the physically handicapped as the "physically challenged." Are we to believe that the physically able never have to overcome obstacles in their lives...
...Media Institute really enjoyed your Essay. We would have enjoyed it even more if your reference to us had been accurate. We think it will probably come as a surprise to Robert and Linda Lichter to hear that they are anybody's "hired guns," let alone ours. And of course the Media Institute is most assuredly not a lobby of any kind. As for our being a "conservative, pro-business lobby," well, we do not know what that means, but then you do not either...