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...famed for his long comedy career and the directorship of the BBC Shakespeare television series, has the rhythm of this elegant Sheridan masterpiece down pat: the well-considered, well-balanced details of posture and diction and timing give an impression of perfect naturalness to a mode which, in all likelihood, was never natural for anyone. Producing such a stylized work without making it stilted, bringing another age's ideal behavior to life, is always risky. It is also precisely the kind of risky business that a talented, academically alert company like the ART should spend its time...
IMMEDIATELY AFTER Reagan's highly supportive letter arrived on Capitol Hill, the House Defense Subcommittee for Appropriations voted to release $560 million for flight testing of MX. The Senate followed suit two days later, and in all likelihood...
...Soviets may reap additional solace from the likelihood that the increase is caused not only by an unusually mild winter and early spring, but also by the conversion of recalcitrant farmers. They seem to be at last responding to the initiatives outlined in Brezhnev's controversial "Food Program," under which farmers throughout the Soviet Union have begun to form "contract brigades" that reward members with cash or produce whenever crops exceed a predetermined goal. Says a U.S. expert: "By the inefficient standards of Soviet agriculture, the contract system appears to be a step forward...
...little practical impact: the disproportion between man's ability to eliminate nuclear arms and nuclear arms' capacity to eliminate man is the most tragic irony of the nuclear age. But if the first four decades of coexisting with nuclear weaponry proves anything, it is this: man cannot diminish the likelihood of nuclear holocaust until he comes to grips intellectually with the complexity of the problem and rejects the easy panaceas of both the Left and the Right. The authors of Living With Nuclear Weapons recognize this; perhaps one day they will be looked on as the men who brought...
...Such a likelihood suggests that the current Administration's initiative to pursue nuclear unassailability may be futile, since the Soviet Union refuses to accept inferior status and has the means to hold its ground...