Word: mutuals
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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They had come to Moscow for the first top-level meeting in 15 years of the Council for Mutual Economic Assistance, the Sovietled trading community. They talked about agriculture, oil prices and technology. But something even more urgent than economics underlay the discussions...
...side feels its security jeopardized by unfavorable trends in that balance, it is likely to ascribe the most sinister motives to its adversary and to take countermeasures it regards as corrective but that the other side regards as threatening. That is the dynamic of vicious cycles, escalating mutual suspicions and potentially disastrous miscalculations...
...loss of mutual resolve among nations that is such a tragedy. Perhaps this sense of purpose is still present under all the rhetoric and vicious attacks that go on among those countries that once stood together against Nazism...
Both books first appeared as lengthy serializations in The New Yorker at the beginning of the year. Schell's is a sequel to his 1982 bestseller The Fate of the Earth. That work received widespread praise for its passionate, sometimes overwrought meditation on the madness of mutual assured destruction (MAD). Schell argued that the apocalyptic nature of nuclear war had rendered obsolete not only war itself but the concept of national sovereignty. He called on the superpowers to eliminate nuclear weapons and to "reinvent politics" by creating a world government loosely based on the pacifist ideals of Mahatma Gandhi...
...rooming together in Adams House and spending incessant hours talking about theater. And they had laid the groundwork for three phenomena almost equally legendary in Harvard theater circles today: the Rauch directing career, the Warner directing career, and the Rauch-Warner friendship, which has oscillated ever since between intense mutual support and equally intense rivalry over actors, stage space, and even scripts...