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...West Germany and Great Britain?which, in the nature of democratic politics, can be expected to get into office eventually?are advocating policies that amount to unilateral nuclear disarmament for their countries. Because these groups hold sway over key segments of public opinion, too many European leaders?even conservative ones???have yielded to the temptation to demonstrate their peaceful intentions the easy way, by pretending to be reining in a bellicose and insensitive U.S. through their ministrations. As a result, among those who shape public attitudes?and thereby set what become the limits of the politically possible?there is less...
...assertion that all human knowledge is encodable in streams of zeros and ones???philosophically, that's very hard to swallow. In effect, the whole world is made to seem computable. This generates a kind of tunnel vision, where the only problems that seem legitimate are problems that can be put on a computer. There is a whole world of real problems, of human problems, which is essentially ignored...
...high pitch in the 19th century, encouraged by a historian named Frantisek Palacky, who emphasized his people's identity by writing about their long struggle for freedom. "The Hussite war," Palacky wrote, "is the first war in history that was fought not for material interests but for intellectual ones???for ideals...
...what the scientists did was to transform the earth and its future. They were surely the adventurers, the explorers, the fortunate ones???and the Men of the Year...
...INDIFFERENT ONES???Alberto Moravia ? Dutton ($2.50). Witty tragedy by a young Italian who has studied Aldous Huxley...