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That strategy would first be maritime in nature, rooted in the understanding that as a coastal nation, the U.S. must protect the sea lanes. "We cannot defend ourselves without a greater naval capability," says Hart. "That may require taking money away from other services." Hart downgrades the idea of preparing...
Hart does not feel it is coincidence that Washington, Lincoln, Wilson and Roosevelt waged successful wars. All were strategists, students of their times and places, calculating with rare skill the human and industrial capacities of the nation, the strengths and weaknesses of the enemy. One of Hart's heroes...
Thomas Berger's novel was a suburban Walpurgisnacht, in which a sedentary couple are driven beyond distraction by the bizarre boorishness of the folks next door. For this to work in the movies it must be played either with the film equivalent of Berger's fastidious prose-Ordinary...
My sympathy goes out to the people of Poland. Nevertheless, the Poles brought this upon themselves and must suffer the consequences. In the short time that Solidarity has been in existence, it has gained much for its people, considering the circumstances. Unfortunately, the union gave the Polish government too little...
But I guess that's part of Christmas too, since there's this song on the Firestone album, sung by Julie Andrews, called "I Wonder as I Wander" (or it might be "I Wander as I Wonder," which would be an equally difficult maneuver). That idea pretty much sums up...