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...earliest books-Nuclear Weapons and Foreign Policy, The Necessity for Choice and The Troubled Partnership-all called for balancing military power in order to achieve greater international stability. A 1968 study of Bismarck, whom Kissinger admires for his grasp of geopolitical realities, argued the importance of restraining contending forces by manipulating their antagonisms and of moving decisively to carry out policy decisions. "A policy that awaits events," wrote Kissinger, "is likely to become their prisoner...
...political name for himself as U.S. Attorney in Massachusetts by prosecuting Boston Industrialist Bernard Goldfine, provider of Sherman Adams' famous vicuna coat, on tax-evasion charges. A Rockefeller supporter in 1968, Richardson nonetheless was invited to Washington as an Under Secretary of State, and his cool, analytical grasp of complex situations attracted the attention of Nixon. Such tough thinking seemed all too rare at the Department of Health, Education and Welfare, and in 1970 Richardson was picked to supply it as Secretary. Though critics contended that he weakened the drive for school desegregation by failing to support busing with...
There are no pretentious general conclusions to be drawn. There is no tenable reason to try to grasp what every instant meant in terms of the one that preceded or followed. These are just images, moments that are frozen to be recalled, to bring back the sensual thrill of the there and then. They are fragments of a timespan to which goodbye is, finally, being said...
...Noah, Ruth and Cain. The subtitles suffice as index to the mind here at work. Respectively they are "The Temptation to Solidarity," "The Dialogue between Love and Bread," and "The Interpretation of the Principle To Each According to his Needs'". In all of these tales Kolakowski evinces an admirable grasp of ethical complexities. There is a consistent argument, implied rather than stated, for more relativism than the standard authoritarian fare will tolerate, be that Marxist, Capitalist or Catholic...
...developed some bad vocal habits. So I retired to start again." Now a worldwide Callas tour that would begin in the fall was being announced. For some time she has been moving back into music. Her voice has lost its reach, no doubt, but she still has a grasp of dramatic music to hold any audience in thrall. Callas will be heard only in concert, so the fascinated public will be spared those horrendous mezzo-tinted feuds with opera directors that were half the show. Unless Rudolf Bing should come from the wings to take...