Word: particularized
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Third, if the U.S. or the USSR were to violate the agreement after 10 years had passed and nuclear weapons were eliminated--and the USSR in particular has a dismal record of adherence to arms treaties--the non-violator would have no way of resisting the violator other than breaking the agreement on its own. Complete elimination of nuclear weapons would, therefore, by current standards, be entirely unenforceable and would rely solely on trust and goodwill between the superpowers. Here comes the Chamberlain lesson again...
...WOLFF STORIES seem at first discrete items of interest about a soldier, or a priest or the strangeness of people who live in the desert. But they bloom from the particular to the universal. Listen to the socially marginalized protagonist of "Soldier...
...time seems to have come for Harvard to make teaching as high a priority as scholarship in its consideration of lifetime appointments, and I encourage you, Mr. Bok, to take these particular situations into your own hands. I am not asking that you automatically grant tenure to either or both of them, merely that these decisions be made by the University's highest authority, an authority that has made a serious commitment to improving the quality of undergraduate education...
Much of this new understanding came through Reagan's preparations for the Geneva summit meeting with Gorbachev. Experts were brought in to brief him on the interplay between Russian culture and the Soviet system. One writer with whom Reagan developed a particular rapport was Suzanne Massie, author of Land of the Firebird: The Beauty of Old Russia, an uplifting history of prerevolutionary Russian culture, its spiritual qualities and love of nature. Indeed, Massie has continued to visit the White House, most recently late last month, when she lunched with the Reagans. Massie sees Reagan as a man who "focuses...
...world last week, and the world could appear to have been waiting for those words. That eternity of language, reaching as far back as forward, is what politicians fear most about poetry, when they do fear it, and it can make a terrible enemy. Politics touches some people at particular times. Poetry calls to all people at all times. By its existence it demands generosity and expansiveness. "When power narrows the areas of man's concern," said Kennedy, "poetry reminds him of the richness and diversity of his existence. When power corrupts, poetry cleanses." Last week Lermontov, dead 145 years...