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Although the U.S. would prefer what Haig calls a more "robust" affirmation of the need for a military buildup, any variation of this formula will satisfy Washington. The Administration had considered calling on its allies to renew a collective pledge, first made in 1979, to increase defense spending by 3% per year. Haig, however, opposed such a numerical target because he believed it would be an unfair way to gauge the relative contributions of member nations, and over the past three years has led only to fruitless finger pointing. Washington dropped the idea. Besides, noted one high State Department official...
Consumers have reacted to past tax cuts by stepping up their purchases of autos, refrigerators, clothing and other goods. For example, they spent about 80% of the $9 billion in personal tax relief in 1964-65, setting cash registers ringing and helping spur a robust expansion. The expectation is that the American public this year, just as in 1964, will eventually spend most...
...world's tribe of Emersonians has dwindled, but it is still a moderately robust and sometimes unlikely collection. André Gide enjoyed Emerson; discovering that is like learning (in the other direction) that the theologian Paul Tillich had a taste for pornography. Ex-Coach Woody Hayes of Ohio State University is a passionate Emersonian. That makes more sense. Part of Emerson-only a part-is a bright theology of pep, a half-time transcendentalism. "Emerson," says Hayes, "he's on my starting eleven"-meaning the authors Hayes most regularly rereads. "In fact...
...next morning, at 7 sharp, the group divides by energy level, either for a Vigorous Morning Walk or a slightly less robust Awake and Aware Walk. At 8 a.m. the marginally intrepid set out for a hike in the desert, marching spryly behind Phyllis Hochman, a former New York City schoolteacher who has, she says, achieved her private fantasy and become "the only middle-aged Jewish female trail leader in the West...
Even in this season's less than robust crop, there are some potential export candidates. Among the one-acters, The New Girl, by Vaughn McBride is a very winning entry. The setting is a room in the Flossie Patch Nursing Home in Burley, Idaho. Clarissa (Anne Pitoniak) is bedridden, and Flo (Susan Kingsley) tools in on a health" to wheelchair get out the reporting first that time she and she'll "faked do it again. "I'm a lifer," responds Clarissa, but not despairingly. The two women are feisty graveyard jesters and the word terminal...