Word: hoffmann
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Disputing the ability of American initiatives for disarmament to evoke Soviet reciprocation, Stanley H. Hoffmann, associate professor of Government, said last night that deterrence has proven "less risky" than alternative cold war policies, and has given the West time to advance its cause within the last decade. He listed as gains the emergence of new nations "not against us," and the development of the Atlantic Community...
...Hoffmann thought Hughes too anxious to "leap into the millennium," and Waskow too anxious to believe in "the seesaw metaphor." Figuring that the Soviet Union should be expected to act in its military self-interest. Hoffmann urged the continuation of America's deterrent posture and placed his faith in the self-restraint of strategists on both sides...
Also elected: Werner L. Gundersheimer, at Paris, history; Roald Hoffmann, at the GSAS, chemical physics; Eric Martin '58, at the Graduate School of Design, theatre architecture; and Peter Temin, at M.I.T., economics...
After the address, Stanley H. Hoffmann, associate professor of Government, said Gardner had "made these problems seem too simple." Claiming that the United States places too much emphasis on the U.N., Hoffmann called the channeling of policy through the U.N. dangerous because it "tends to define the terms of that policy...
...Goro, the wizened Japanese matchmaker of Butterfly; Shuiski, the crafty adviser to the Czar in Boris Godunov; Spoletta, the evil police agent of Tosca; Don Basilio, the fatuous music master of Figaro. His palsied Emperor in Turandot is one of his most recent and brilliant successes. In Tales of Hoffmann he has four roles (Andres, Cochenille, Pitichinaccio and Frantz) and four rapid-fire makeup changes. This week in Boston, where he is visiting with the Met, De Paolis is scheduled to appear not only as Goro and Spoletta but as Alaindoro, the skirt-chasing old roue...