Word: formally
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Charles L. Diana '78, president of the Mather House Council, said last week that although the council is not planning any formal protest, some students "are trying to get something together." Time will tell...
...arms," in the generic sense. Because the former term implies the existence of a forum, agreements, inspection, and reciprocity, it cannot accommodate any effort at stabilization that may exist outside such a framework. Nor, he says, do the "posturing, stonewalling, constructing bargaining chips and .. games of chicken" that accompany formal negotiations help matters much...
RAVENAL IS certainly correct in assuming that the objective of arms control is stabilization, rather than a formal treaty, and in arguing that if the former can only be accomplished without the latter, then so be it. He neglects to mention, however, what cutting off the lines of communication in Geneva would mean to U.S.-Soviet relations. The diplomatic tremors from such a shock could easily affect the international balance of power adversely...
Ravenal's major weakness, though, is that in arguing that the present stalemate can only be broken unilaterally, outside of formal negotiations, he makes the same mistake as those who rely too heavily on SALT alone, at the expense of unilateral efforts. In short, he lacks the flexibility that comes from using both approaches to the proper advantage...
...musical taste were associated with him, Stokowski's positive progressive instinct surfaced steadily and surely. To Stokowski the sound an orchestra produced and the reaction it drew from an audience were more important than anything else in a concert. If this necessitated a breach in propriety or break from formal performance practice, he sanctioned it. Stokowski conducted without a baton, and partly because of that was considered one of the most difficult conductors to follow. He relied in its stead upon subtle gestures and facial expressions to produce the desired results. Stokowski allowed himself to get carried away...