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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Meanwhile, the problem of Western euphoria over Gorbachev is complicated by Moscow's having been particularly clever in its understanding of the public relations value of unilateral announcements -- something the West has yet to learn. When the Soviets make unilateral announcements, Moscow reaps a tremendous p.r. benefit, and I'm left with the reality -- continued huge Soviet military capabilities. It's difficult to get the public to realize that unilateral pronouncements uncodified by treaty are easy to turn around, as are intentions generally. I'm routinely criticized for a supposedly overly simplistic insistence on assessing capabilities rather than intentions. Well...
...want to see us ever do away with our nuclear capability in Europe. My No. 1 mission is to deter war, not simply win one. For 500 years, every European generation has had to learn anew about war. Now, for four decades we haven't had one here. I don't think it's a coincidence that this period has coincided with the nuclear...
...adopted a policy three days before of not giving further interviews on the issue. On calling, I was told that I had been called as a part of a poll of UC representatives, and informed of the results, which had been published in that day's paper. Disappointed to learn that my resolution was headed to near-certain defeat, I nevertheless reaffirmed my original position...
Seung concludes his response with an implicit threat of violence towards me: "And yes, we play Pictionary," he writes. "We also learn Tae Kwon...
...choir while crouched in a pew, nothing visible but his hand; Gould serenading the elephants at the Toronto zoo by singing them Mahler at dawn. Yet at play within him was something deeper than mere oddity. Able to read music before he could read words, Gould found he could learn scores most easily while listening simultaneously to TV shows or the roar of a vacuum cleaner. Always, his remarkable gifts were shadowed by a perversity that drove him to torture the works he disliked (notably, most of Mozart), and by a habit of compulsive experimentation that made him treat even...