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...scales will be tipped so heavily in favor of moral and ideological considerations that we must. We have emphasized the ideological factor in the power equation because the requisite information about the associated strategic risks is of course classified. Since the risk of precipitating a Third World War is implicit in any decision to confront Russian military power, such a policy must be adopted only after the risk of a Third World War has been minimized in so far as possible...
Spivs & Mistresses. Since Author Wilson's implicit tenet is that to know people is to loathe them, the people closest to Gerald are farthest from him. His Danish wife is an octupal mom rich in bloodcurdling whimsy who speaks Teutonically fractured English. Their best years together have been the long ones they have spent apart. Gerald's only daughter has married a slack-spirited intellectual snob. His younger son is a BBC television personality whose public pitch is heart-tugging interviews with the wronged; privately, he is enamored of a blackmailing, homosexual spiv. Gerald's elder...
...famed August Bournonville in 1836 and passed down virtually unchanged from lip to toe. It begins with a round of mimed action during which some observers usually expect the dancers to burst into recitative and aria at any moment. The white-clad sylph (Margrethe Schanne), her supernatural character implicit in the tiny wings at her waist, falls in love with the Scotch farm boy (Henning Kronstam); but when the family arrives, she dashes over to the fireplace and literally whisks up the chimney...
Thus The Flowers of the Forest is interesting on two counts: first for its skilled anecdotes of men of genius, and second for its implicit psychological portrait of a pacifist. Unlike those whose lot is but to do and die, the pacifist has to reason why. Hence his reminiscences tend to be much wittier than old soldiers' tales...
...augment grandeur. The Suez Canal, by reason of its internationalized character, both in law and in fact, is the last place wherein to seek the means of gaining national triumphs." He made passing reference to Nasser's much quoted Philosophy of the Revolution (see box) and its implicit threat of an Arab withholding of oil, "the sinew of material civilization without which machines would cease to function." To guard against such threats, Dulles proposed an international board to run the canal...