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Schell, if you remember, is the sanctimonious New Yorker staff writer who penned the hopelessly whiny, self-righteous. Fate of the Earth, which many on the Left and in the Dovish Center embraced as the anti-nuke Bible...

Author: By Michael W. Hirschorn, | Title: Bumper Car Philosophy | 8/10/1984 | See Source »

...forth two years ago. In fact, the author, with customary hubris, goes so far as to quote his previous work as an example of a historic consensus: world government can be the only real solution to the nuclear crisis--this consensus, by the way, includes such luminaries as nuke guru. Herman Kahn, Harvard's Living With Nuclear Weapons gang, MIT nuclear specialist George Rathjens. Bertrand Russell, Grenville Clark, and Louis B. Sohn Schell explains parenthetically. "I take the liberty of quoting myself again only because I wish to acknowledge my former adherence to a point of view with which...

Author: By Michael W. Hirschorn, | Title: Bumper Car Philosophy | 8/10/1984 | See Source »

...York State? Political books are rarely written merely to enrich the intellectual content of bourgeois existence. Sen. Gary W. Hart (D-Colo.) did not churn out A New Democracy because he fancied himself a renaissance man, nor did Sen. Edward M. Kennedy '54 (D-Mass.) pen a how-to nuke freeze guide because he could only express his heartfelt convictions in mass market soft-cover...

Author: By Michael W. Hirschorn, | Title: Connect-the-Dot Politics | 6/6/1984 | See Source »

...some of the bizarre behavior that men have exhibited in the White House?during the last days of the Nixon Administration, for example, or during the time when Lyndon Johnson was beleaguered there. Why be concerned that a woman might, in the throes of some monthly lunacy, want to nuke Leningrad? Of more concern might be a man in the White House with six stiff Scotches in him. The so-called premenstrual syndrome (depression, anger, in some rare cases, violence, around the time of menstruation) has been used successfully as a defense in a couple of murder trials in England...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why Not a Woman? | 6/4/1984 | See Source »

...short attempts the time that he was Christic Brinkley host the evening news (the voice over: "and now here's Christic with tonight's lead story on a chain-saw murder-suicide in Toledo." Milo: "Go For It!!" Christie: "Hi! Oh Gross..") Or Elvis' secret diaries, or Norma the Nuke--but one is almost always left dissatisfied. More annoying still is Breathed's attempt to pass off his lack of follow-through as creative weirdness. No nationally syndicated comic strip ever got by on weirdness alone, except Ziggy, the continuing story of a small, blob-like character that...

Author: By Jonathan S. Sapers, | Title: Loony Toons | 5/3/1984 | See Source »

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