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...Paper Tiger. "The Cuban missile crisis," writes Brzezinski, "offered a basic lesson in international politics. The U.S. assured the Soviets that it will react if pushed too hard-that there is legitimate merit in maintaining international stability." When the U.S. hesitated to act in Viet Nam, the Soviets forgot the lesson and thought the Chinese correct in labeling the U.S. a paper tiger. "It was in this context that the Soviet leadership began to show renewed interest in North Viet...
Courses in the history of religion and the Bible, however, are inappropriate in the public schools, Ulich said. High school students, "to whom nothing is as attractive as negative rationality," would react skeptically to such courses and "be likely to interpret religion merely as human invention...
...with a piece of music, the viewer must react to the abstract qualities of a non-representational art with a willingness to be moved. Like rhythm, melody, and harmony in music, coloristic spacial structural themes are the essentials of this art. An appreciation of these qualities requires a substantial span of time before the canvas...
Precisely because the program is vague and voluntary, its success will depend primarily upon how businessmen react to it. Such industrialists as G.M.'s Donner and RCA's David Sarnoff pointed out that their companies already have favorable trade balances, thus implying that the President could expect little more from them. A number of bankers echoed the criticism made by European financial leaders that Johnson had attacked the symptoms rather than the basic causes of the deficit. They pointed out that, in a rush to beat the voluntary controls, U.S. banks have probably already exceeded...
...Englishman, worth more than you'll ever dream of making or marrying, weds a hairdresser, do you react at all? Well, you do if his name is Ringo Starr and you're still a single college girl--even a Cliffie...