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Once again our protagonist is Trapped, a bright, attractive housewife dramatizing wildly to retain her sanity while being battered senseless by the weapons of Domesticity. Addressing the audience as one would the wall in a world gone ga-ga, the wife. Babs, bobs and jiggles like an adorable, black-eyed marionette. Objects like vacuum cleaners, blenders and detergents take on a sinister life of their own: the dog, her one friend, weighs about 250 pounds, goes shopping and watches television. The play is liberating because it magnifies everyday neuroses into a giddy surrealism that comes far closer to capturing...
...tactics necessary to create an "overt act," what today we call the media event. By staging overt acts Bernays feels he went beyond protraying his clients dreams as reality; he actually made them reality. "Actions cannot lie," says Bernays, meaning that all overt acts, although they may seem artificial, retain their own power and meaning...
Contending that its internal self-discipline is sufficient to prevent abuse, the medical community has traditionally demanded a degree of autonomy greater than that granted to many professions. But in order to retain that public trust, physicians must be willing to confront difficult ethical questions when they arise. We hope the second joint committee, instructed to draw up guidelines for writing recommendations, will remind physicians that, particularly in medicine, moral questions cannot be separated from professional ones. By recommending a firm set of guidelines, we hope the second committee will succeed where the first has failed...
Moreover, a pledge not to use nuclear weapons first would weaken the doctrine of "extended deterrence," the American nuclear umbrella that covers Western Europe. For that doctrine to remain credible, the U.S. must retain the option of first using nuclear weapons against an attack on Western Europe by the Warsaw Pact's numerically superior conventional forces. If a war in Europe were limited to conventional arms, the Soviets would be heavily favored...
...Democratic Union (C.D.U.), West Germany's main opposition party for the past twelve years, faced both an opportunity and a challenge. The opportunity was that Chancellor Helmut Schmidt's Social Democratic Party was so badly riven by the missile issue that it might not be able to retain power until the national elections scheduled for 1984. The challenge was that the Christian Democrats would have to contend with the widespread appeal of the "peace" movement in West Germany without compromising their basic stand for a strong military and the firm support of NATO...