Word: insistences
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...European-that have transformed the nature of war and diplomacy. In the past, Aron points out, war was simply the last stage of strategy, Clausewitz' "extension of politics." Now, as in the 1962 Cuban confrontation, the great powers are committed to a war of bluff in which strategists insist that the bluff must never be called or war declared. "For the first time in history," writes Aron, "entire weapons systems, developed at the cost of billions of dollars, are retired without ever having been put to any but purely diplomatic use; or we might say that their purpose...
...continuing nightmare of the atomic age is the possibility that somewhere, some time, a nuclear reactor may go out of control and blow itself to bits like an overheated steam-age boiler with its safety valve tied down. Builders and promoters of reactors insist that this is highly improbable, but the Atomic Energy Commission wants more facts - just in case. So last week it loosed the controls of a reactor and let her blow...
...breeders insist that hounds are even easier to handicap than horses. For one thing, there is no jockey to worry about. Greyhounds reach speeds up to 40 m.p.h. on the straightaway. They compete without regard to sex, and the winningest dog of all time was a little brindled bitch named Indy Ann, who racked up 137 victories in the mid-1950s. Buying a hound is somewhat cheaper than buying a race horse (promising pups sell for $1,000 up), and far less chancy: unlike the ponies, greyhounds breed so true that handlers can predict the habits of a pup with...
Brains, most handlers insist, are the key to a hound's success in topflight competition. In the starting box, unable to see, dull-witted dogs tend to relax; the smart ones stay tense and ready. Says Florida Trainer F. B. Stutz: "They learn to listen for the sound of the rabbit coming up behind the boxes. They gauge just how much the noise has to fade before the lure is far enough away to trip the doors, and they're ready to jump when those doors open...
...less than five of the book's contributors call on William James' Varieties of Religious Experience for a precedent to LSD visions. One writer reports that most LSD subjects receive a "common vision of immortality." They, presumably, have seen through the mortality game. Although both Leary and Huxley insist that LSD is only a means of educating oneself for the normal conscious state, neither really explains why it wouldn't be nicer to spend all one's time under LSD. As an Indian student remarked recently, "Who wants to build railroads when you can have the fulfillment of all your...