Word: methodism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...arms control. "The land-based ICBM cannot be preserved without arms control," said Commission Member John Deutch of M.I.T. "This was our truly unanimous view." However, the shift back to single-warhead missiles scrambles the prevailing mathematics of arms control. With this in mind, the commission recommended a different method of calculating strategic threats: counting the number of warheads and their size rather than the number of missiles possessed by each side. While the new math won prepublication plaudits from Pentagon officials, it could further complicate the Strategic Arms Reduction Talks (START) in Geneva...
...Japanese engineers and artisans who built the park nonetheless stamped it with their signatures. Main Street is spanned by a gigantic roof, a concession to Japan's rainy season. For a Western barn, carpenters used an ancient Oriental method for fitting wooden joints together precisely. Two shows are tailored to the locale: Meet the World uses film and animation in a revolving theater to give insights into 2,000 years of Japanese history, and The Eternal Sea, an 18-minute movie, whisks audiences past open-jawed sharks and over the ocean floor...
...State's streety New York coach. "Drexler had a ten-plus." Clyde Drexler, a 6-ft. 7-in. forward, is fitted with Elgin Baylor's old gyroscope. For Houston's jumping fraternity, call letters Phi Slamma Jamma, arrogance was unavoidable. Forward Benny Anders described the method of the Cougars' 26th straight victory: "Take it to the rack, and stick it on them...
Mailer's current complaint seems a classic case of answered prayers. In Advertisements for Myself (1959) he thrust himself stage center. He became his own best subject and turned narcissism into a method of social analysis. For a heady period, no major public event in U.S. life seemed quite complete until Mailer had observed himself observing it: a huge anti-Viet Nam War march on the Pentagon (The Armies of the Night); political conventions (Miami and the Siege of Chicago); the Apollo space program (Of a Fire on the Moon). Mailer was not content simply turning out excellent books...
...articles about the nuclear debate here and in Europe as if he were Anthony Lewis '48, and he effectively discounts any responses to his pieces by labelling all his opponents dupes of the Reagan Administration spewing forth propaganda like mindless morons (a nice twist on the traditional right-wing method of calling opponents Communist dupes). This is a tried and true method for advancing one's opinion--discredit the opposition and no one but you is left for the reader to believe--and it speaks well for Mr. Louis's cunning. I wish the same could be said...