Word: mad
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Francois had been mad all day. We were walking on the beach that morning and someone laughed at him. Just a little, of course, and quickly stifled. Someone coming on him suddenly couldn't help it, I suppose. Francois was furious. He waddled down the beach faster almost than I could run to catch him. When I got to him, we trotted side by side for a while. His face was livid and he was muttering obscenities...
...moderate their position at SALT II, Schlesinger recently disclosed that U.S. nuclear doctrine has been undergoing "major change" since last spring. For 20 years American and Soviet strategy has been based on a concept of deterrence that came to be known as mutual assured destruction. Called MAD, an acronym coined by the Hudson Institute's Brennan, the doctrine holds that peace is best maintained by threatening to obliterate an entire enemy society in retaliation for a nuclear attack. Thus, the policymakers argue, nuclear war becomes unthinkable...
Over the past three years, however, Nixon has from time to time expressed ethical and practical reservations about MAD. In his foreign policy message to Congress last May, for example, the President declared that deterrence based on the ability to kill tens of millions of Soviet citizens was "inconsistent with American values." He also said that he wanted a nuclear strategy that would have "greater flexibility," a phrase that went unexplained?and virtually unnoticed by the public?until last summer. At that time, Schlesinger disclosed that the U.S. missile force was being retriggered to give the U.S. a "counterforce" capability...
...justify the change in strategy, the Secretary of Defense argued that MIRV advances might tempt the Soviet Union to launch a limited nuclear strike against the U.S. Under MAD, the only possible U.S. nuclear response would be an all-out attack on Soviet cities. That would not only be inhumane but suicidal, because Russia would retain enough missiles?particularly those aboard submarines, which are virtually invulnerable to attack?to obliterate U.S. population centers. Consequently, the President might decide to save American lives by not retaliating, in effect acquiescing to the aggression...
...balanced and meticulously researched biography, Dublin-born journalist Brian Inglis traces the Sophoclean confluence of events and experiences that led Casement to fame, obloquy and the gallows as yet another martyr for Irish freedom. How high Casement rates in that mad hierarchy depends on how history will eventually assess the shadowed side of his nature. Casement was a rapacious homosexual, a fact that was never suspected until his arrest in 1916, when Scotland Yard seized his private papers. Its most notable find was the so-called "black diaries" which Casement supporters erroneously denounced as forgeries. The diaries document his obsession...