Word: proofing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...faced with nuclear blackmail in a limited conflict. By making all strategy contingent on the former, we have failed to come to grips with the latter. "Against an opponent known to consider nuclear war as the worse evil, nuclear blackmail is an almost fool-proof strategy." Juxtapose this statement with the following: "To rely entirely on the continued good will of another sovereign state is an abdication of statesmanship and self-respect"--and you have the central point of Kissinger's critique...
...years old, which means that he is, in plain fact, older than Nutcracker Man. Now the significance of the child is this: the distance between him and Nutcracker Man (a matter of brain capacity and degree of specialization, not to mention N.M.'s astounding molars) is clinching empirical proof that the human species has advanced steadily and with a fair degree of haste from an 11-year-old hominid to better and newer models with--dare we say it--safety belts...
...easy to scorn the foreign language requirement as a barnacle of tradition. Its existence can not be justified by either statistics or cold empirical proof, but only by an appeal to values...
...news during the war by Edward R. Murrow, some of whose proteges imitated his sepulchral tones and adopted his left-of-center emotions; the so-called "Murrow Boys" included Eric Sevareid, Charles Collingwood and Larry Le Sueur. The Murrow style has long since come to seem stale, and the proof lies in the widespread acceptance of the far more informal Huntley-Brinkley format. But CBS's problems go even farther back. When Sig Mickelson joined CBS in 1949, he began trying to build his own news organization, and a Murrow-Mickelson rift developed that was never repaired...
Scored for Fields. The late Gene (A Solo in Tom-Toms) Fowler, who died last year at 70, has here bottled some 96-proof nostalgia. A series of discontinuous an ecdotes, Skyline almost asks to be read aloud in the elliptical nasalities...