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...diplomatic trophies that Richard Nixon had hoped to bring home from Moscow last spring was an agreement establishing the basis for vastly increased U.S.-Soviet trade, which the President firmly believes is a sine qua non for improved relations between the superpowers. By the time the Kremlin talks had ended, however, both sides were still hung up on too many points of contention to issue more than a general statement of optimism. Last week that optimism turned into something far more solid than words. The U.S. and the Soviet Union signed a comprehensive agreement setting up the terms...
...biology, growth is a distinguishing mark of life; in economics it has long seemed the sine qua non of the good life. Adam Smith argued in 1776 that "it is not the actual greatness of national wealth, but its continual increase, which occasions a rise in the wages of labor." Economists ever since have insisted that only a rapid increase in output could lift mankind out of poverty. Politicians of every ideology have dedicated themselves to raising production, to the applause of their constituents...
...Cartoon-qua-cartoon, Fritz The Cat isn't much. The good scenes (there are plenty) come straight out of Crumb, while the Bakshi-formed transitions are usually banal. (Bakshi can't cut to save his life within scenes either.) The voices are fine, the music jaunty, and at one point--when Billie Holiday is heard singing "Yesterdays"--the soundtrack gets beautiful. The color is gloriously trashy, but Bakshi lingers on his settings at ridiculous length...
...more likely to be born prematurely, to contract serious diseases during infancy and to suffer from malnutrition during the first three years of life, when 80% of all brain growth takes place. Doctors and educators agree that language, words as a key to handling ideas, is the sine qua non of intelligence. Yet the children of the poor, white or black, are less likely than middle-class youngsters to get the intellectual stimulation essential to their mental development. Some parents in urban and rural ghettos still follow what Mrs. Mary Robinson, director of Baltimore's Martin Luther King Center...
...asset of Nixon's, but the man who brought us the forgettable public tragedies of Checkers and Cambodia and the toothless tiger of Phase II has proven that we do not value charisma as much as we think we do. Or that, more precisely, charisma is not the sine qua non that it is cracked up to be. His career testifies that a patient, practised and lucky player can finesse a winner from a political hand as apparently irreparably weak as Nixon's was after his defeat in California...