Word: reckoner
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...redefine explicitly its global security interests, then to reckon exactly what weapons are necessary to defend those interests. Unlike Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger, who feels the U.S. needs highly sophisticated arms to keep up with the Soviets, Hart favors rugged and comparatively simple weapons...
Still, Newman is inevitably a force to reckon with, and that makes his casting of the feeble Benson the more surprising-surely he knows he can hold the screen against a real actor. Howard is supposed to be a rebel and a goof-off, but with a core of sensitivity and integrity supporting his literary ambitions and his resistance to Harry's loud demands that he find steady work. But Benson is one of those performers who appear to be playing for the mirror instead of the camera; nothing interferes with his pleased self-contemplation Harry...
...afternoon this African got up in my favorite class, Difficult Fiction, and denounced William Faulkner for his treatment of 'non-Western people.' " Peter De Vries weighs in with a brilliant Yoknapatawpha parody, then Kenneth Tynan lampoons Faulkner in his spoonbread rendition of Our Town: "Well, folks, reckon that's about it. End of another day in the city of Jefferson, Mississippi ... Couple of people got raped, couple more got their teeth kicked in, but way up there those faraway old stars are still doing their old cosmic crisscross, and there ain't a thing...
When the first ghastly day was over, Honolulu began to reckon up the score. It was one to make the U.S. Navy and Army shudder. Of the 200,000 inhabitants of Oahu, 1,500 were dead, 1,500 others injured. Washington called the naval damage "serious," admitted at least one "old" battleship and a destroyer had been sunk, other ships damaged at base. Meanwhile Japan took to the radio to boast that the U.S. had suffered an "annihilating blow...
...object was to create something where nothing had been before, or at least not for many centuries. After the terrible revelations of the Nazi Holocaust, the impulse was to create, to will a Jewish state into being in the desert. The Zionist ideal, unfortunately, did not sufficiently reckon with the complexities of Middle Eastern life and politics. The European Jews arrived in Palestine, one writer said, as if they had come to colonize the moon. But the place was not untenanted, and all the history of Israel since its birth has been troubled by a 35-year war that, quite...