Word: reckonings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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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...
...LEGACY of Peter Sellers '80 has bequeathed to Harvard a finer appreciation than before of theatrical innovation. During Sellars' four years here, the community witnessed productions that reached to the outer limits of interpretation and experimentation. Now a talent the greater theater world need reckon with, Sellars clearly knew what he was doing, and he rarely came up without pearls. Unfortunately, his example also marked student theater with a mad and often careless pursuit of creative spontaneity, an excessive emphasis on the experimental side of drama, that now plagues and even stems its creativity...
...work at all, deterrence requires murderers to reckon at least roughly the probable costs of their actions. But if a killer is drunk or high on drugs, that kind of rational assessment might be impossible. Passions are often at play that make a cost-benefit analysis unlikely. Most killers are probably not lucid thinkers at their best. Henry Brisbon Jr. (see box) may be legally sane, but he is by ordinary standards demented enough to make a mess of any theory of deterrence. Says New York University Law Professor Anthony Amsterdam: "People who ask themselves those questions...
Jimmy Connors, bearing down on 30, was thinking of more than winning, savoring a big chance and leaving it to others to reckon how much remains of the skill that brought him the 1974 championship. "It never slips away until it's gone," said Connors, a former wise guy gaining in wisdom...
This is why liberal skeptics are alleging this new example of U.S. intervention in mother country's affairs. President Reagan and his advisors are convinced that the Soviet Union and Cuba are gaining influence in Central America. In Guatemala, leftist guerillas have recently become a force to reckon with. As of last year, they were operating in 19 of the country's 22 regions, sabotaging public works and generally making life miserable for the army. But Washington couldn't resume aid to Gunmetal because of the prevailing climate of repression: Congress, already divided over arms sales to El Salvador, would...