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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Bundy offers historical background, personal recollection and editorial commentary throughout his 617-page book that eventually combine to present an optimistic analysis for the future of global nuclear policy. Although Bundy has not written an autobiography here, one of Danger and Survival's most compelling characteristics is the author's first-person description of the international crisis in Cuba and Berlin during the Kennedy Administration when he was the president's special assistant for national security affairs...
Aside from these current issues, most of Bundy's book addresses the high-level decisions that led to the present global nuclear situation. His explanations are thorough and readily accessable to the uninformed reader. From Roosevelt and Truman's earliest decisions to drop the bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Bundy challenges old and recent theories answering the why and how of these events...
...great size of the baby boom generation also encouraged a sort of subliminal illusion. When time flows from father to son, from past through present into future, the generations have their orderly procession, proceeding vertically through time. But it was a metaphysical conceit of the baby boomers that the present expanded horizontally, into a kind of earthly eternity. "We want the world, and we want it now!" In the great collision of the generations, the young created their own world, a "counter culture" as Historian Theodore Roszak first called it, and endowed it with the significances and pseudo-profundities...
...Pudding will present Turner with her award on February 14 at a preview performance of scenes from their spring show. Before the ceremony, Turner will get a taste of the society's distinctive brand of humor, as a band of cross-dressed actors escorts her open-air convertible down Mass. Ave. to the Hasty Pudding Theater and performs several musical numbers for the guest of honor...
Lindsay Crouse, who starred in her husband David Mamet's House of Games, and conductor Christopher Hogwood will present workshops in late February and early March as part of the "Learning from Performers" series...