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...October of 1945, George Orwell wrote a prescient essay entitled "You and the Atom Bomb" which may hint at an answer. After mentioning that revolutionary activity has usually occurred in periods when the dominant weapon was a simple one, he wrote. "Had [nuclear weapons been cheap and easy to produce] the whole trend of history would have been, bruptly altered. The distinction between great status and small states would have been wiped out, and the power of the State over the individual would have been greatly weakened...Looking at the world as a whole, the drift for many decades...
...hair is thick and wavy; his rolling gait has just a hint of swagger. Since Ronald Reagan became President, his chest has actually grown broader by three inches, thanks to his lifting weights. Posing for a photograph out at his ranch, he looks rangy and hale, an ageless cowboy. On a podium with waving flags and floating balloons, he can mesmerize and uplift. But when he speaks extemporaneously, the effect can be more halting than inspirational. He has long been notorious for bungling facts. He often mangles syntax. Somehow, with a quip or a smile, he usually manages to fight...
...very same Harvard field hockey squad that earlier this month dropped as straight shutout losses yesterday dropped a pretty big hint that it's no longer the very same team...
...came through to Reagan loud and clear. It was that Gromyko had no signal to send at all. No message in his eyes. No meaning in his grip. No words that held promise for any kind of agreement. Gromyko's presence in the White House was the only hint that Soviet-U.S. relations might be changing...
...unpleasant odor, Gromyko for 75 minutes assailed the U.S. as the cause of all political tensions that have plagued the world since 1946. His speech, delivered in an icy monotone, was replete with outrageous assertions ("Provocative intrigues continue against sov ereign and nonaligned Afghanistan") and devoid of the slightest hint of a change in Moscow's position on any subject...