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...course, some feminists would argue, we cannot ignore an example of pornography simply because others exist which are more offensive. New extremes will always outstrip the old. But drawing lines isn't the point; I'm not interested in rating SI on any absolute scale of offensiveness...
...President's political ascendancy lay in sensing that Government needed to become a forum of denial. The late Dean Acheson defined it as the necessity of "administering scarcity." Joe Califano, who under Johnson and Carter helped design this huge Government, foresaw a time when the cost of programs would outstrip the nation's ability to pay for them. Learning to think small, Califano warned six years ago, could be a traumatic experience...
Some relationships are damaged when the wife's income and prestige outstrip the husband's. Medvene recently counseled a couple, both psychologists, who were unable to deal with that issue. Guilt-ridden, the wife had been rejecting offers to head committees; her humiliated husband meanwhile doubted his own professional success. During therapy, the wife began to assume a more active role in her career while he took up a diversionary interest in music and sculpture...
Determined to expose Fevvers for the sham she must be, Walser resolves to follow in the wake of her newfound renown. That means somehow joining the circus of Colonel Kearney, a bizarre Kentuckian who has hired Fevvers to join a historic round-the-world tour: the American plans to outstrip Hannibal, taking a full troupe of performers and animals ("tuskers across the tundra!") from St. Petersburg to Japan, by way of Siberia, and thence on to Seattle. Walser is hired as a clown...
...what should be a fairly propitious atmosphere for an arms control agreement. All signs indicate that the Soviets have not taken lightly the unremitting Reagan arms build-up, and are now especially scared of his proposals to extend the arms race to outer space, where American technological capabilities far outstrip the Soviets'. They now know they have four more years of Reagan and seem prepared to deal...