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...Vulnerability has not been established by experience. If it had been, the U.S. would now largely be a radioactive wasteland or a Soviet colony or both. Rather, vulnerability is a hypothetical condition. It arises in worst-case scenarios about what might happen-in the guidance systems of rockets, in outer space over the North Pole, in underground silos beneath the incinerated landscapes of the American Northwest and in the minds of men in Washington and Moscow-during the first half-hour of World War III. While highly conjectural, the problem of determining vulnerability must still be taken very seriously: avoiding...
...tennis lobs, lolling in cocoa butter and perfecting curvature of the spine cocooned in hammocks. August is more a hiatus than a month, and the level of public anxiety ordinarily settles on such problems as whether the inner side of one's forearm is as tan as the outer. Still, some of the is sues suggested by Reagan's holiday are real, especially as they involve policy matters. This has hardly been a languid summer season so far, what with the air-traffic controllers' strike and the resurrection of the neutron bomb. The problems attending these matters...
Over lunch, Rouse expands on his philosophy of urban development: "We have lived so long with grim, congested, worn-out inner cities and sprawling, cluttered outer cities, that we have subconsciously come to accept them as inevitable and unavoidable. Deep down in our national heart is a lack of conviction that cities can be beautiful, humane, and truly responsive to the needs and yearnings of our people...
...putti of Raphael, Da Vinci's Virgin of the Rocks and the entire school of German Romanticism. The sprung rhythms of the text and the richly allusive paintings do not make Outside Over There inappropriate for children. Even the very young can appreciate the work on its outer level. But only adults can wholly understand a work that has been merchandized as juvenilia and is, instead, the most unusual novel of the season...
...TRIO--Zod, Ursa, and Non--are none other than the criminals-in-chief of Superman's home planet, Krypton. At the end of Part I, they were imprisioned by our hero's father and doomed to float about the galaxy in a funky outer-space jail cell. Freed, they decided to take over earth and rule forever, needless to say, in a most unpleasant manner...