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...Essay on "The Metaphysics of War" [May 17] implies that were it not for the apocalyptic possibilities of nuclear technology, war might be thought of as an unpleasant necessity. Until the mid-19th century, slavery was regarded in the same way. We have outgrown slavery. We should also outgrow...
...haven't outgrown my love of sports. I still spend Sunday afternoons watching football, and summer nights at Fenway Park. "You just think that the athletes are cute," I am told. But I guess the Dallas cheerleaders add a lot to the game. There is a hell of a lot more to watching sports than ogling men. I could appreciate a Larry Bird pass whether he looked like Robert Redford or Jimmy Durante...
...service of his nation's diplomacy. Soldier, statesman and swashbuckling hero of Israel's wars with its Arab neighbors, Moshe Dayan occupied center stage in Israel for more than 30 years. By the time he died last week of a heart attack at 66, Dayan had largely outgrown his image as a warrior and become an impassioned advocate of peace...
...STARE AWAY at Michelle bathing, at Manon padding about the house in torn outgrown pajamas, at Guy sweating and drooling in his sleep. The movie is so permeated by the crisp snap-crackle-pop of late autumn in the mountains, so unabashed before the imperfect facts of life (like flat tires, cracked boots and dirty dishes), that the ugliness takes on an indefinable glow, Les Bons Debarras tells it like it is, but in the process manages to make it magic...
...Soviet squeeze, however, is dramatically different from the American one. Energy wildcatters and big oil companies have exhaustively drilled the Western Hemisphere for more than a century, and the U.S. has been forced to rely on imports for half its oil because it has simply outgrown its readily available reserves. The Soviets, on the other hand, still have enormous amounts of oil in the ground, with estimated proven reserves of 67 billion bbl. of oil, compared with 26 billion for the U.S. and 166 billion for Saudi Arabia. But even though Moscow planners are not hindered by environmental protest groups...