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...giant bombers, silent and invisible at 30,000 ft., are first announced by the whistling of scores of falling bombs. On contact, the strike shakes the earth for miles around, raising a holocaust of dust, smoke and debris. Well-dug-in guerrillas can frequently survive an attack, but a peasant in his field has little chance...
...month, Leonid Brezhnev smiled conspiratorially across a plate of watermelon slices at U.S. Commerce Secretary Peter Peterson. "The Soviet Union has vast treasures for generations to come," the Communist Party boss said, "and we are now prepared to share them with you." He also told a joke about the peasant who bought eggs for two rubles, sold them for two rubles, and exclaimed "I am in business!" Brezhnev's point: the U.S. and the Soviets should not strike a trade bargain merely for the sake of making a deal, but should try large-scale ventures that would yield solid...
...matter of the already affluent giving up such frills as electric toothbrushes or power windows. Sacrifices would be made by the poor, who have not yet collected the benefits of the industrial revolution. Economic growth does not necessarily guarantee that the unemployed Mississippi Delta black or the Vietnamese peasant will some day enjoy a balanced diet or a private room. But stopping growth could all too easily foreclose even the possibility...
...becoming the epitome of the omnipotent New England matriarch, a self-reliant Puritan. Like Tess of the d'Urbervilles, she emerges the stronger in the contest of seduction and betrayal. Tess, "nature's noble woman," shows an earthy complicity in her own seduction; as an unlikely sort of peasant-aristocrat, she floats between opposite poles of believable human characterization...
...Tanaka tells it, he is "a born peasant." It is true, as his daughter Makiko insists, that stray dogs are the only other creatures up and about in Tokyo's fashionable Mejiro neighborhood each day at 5:30 when Tanaka arises. Still, there is nothing humble about his house: a 24-room mansion surrounded by gardens and the putting green on which Tanaka tries to improve his 18-handicap golf. No other politician in Tokyo has anything to compare with Tanaka's spread, but he protests that he needs the space. "A politician," he says, "is like...