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...community to be considered one community," says Mary Spata, assistant Director of Student Life, adding that the challenge now is "to shrink the psychological size of the University, to create more of a sense of unity, to help people find their place...
...second reservation is that the nuclear debate is as complex as any in American political history. There is no single "nuclear issue," but many interrelated ones that it would be unwise to study in isolation. Living With Nuclear Weapons makes a valiant effort to shrink aspects of the nuclear debate to human dimensions. It employs frequent analogies--to duels, track meets, football games, horses, porcupines and staircases--and even includes a "checklist of arms control proposals" that is reminiscent of nothing so much as a Topps baseball card. But even it must descend into nuclear complexity, and sometimes it fails...
...soldiers so badly deployed that he thought of relieving General Mario Benjamin Menéndez, commander of the 10,000-man garrison on the islands. Galtieri later rejected the idea for fear that it would cause panic among the dispirited troops. As conditions deteriorated, he says, Menendez "seemed to shrink five centimeters every day." Faced with a severe equipment shortage, Galtieri reveals that he bought ten Mirage jets from Peru, then cut a deal with Libyan Dictator Muammar Gaddafi for the delivery of five Boeings loaded with materiel. Galtieri also admits what everyone has suspected all along...
That is slightly hyperbolic, but Mailer indisputably makes waves when he moves in public. And whatever he may say to the contrary, he does not shrink from attention. Shortly before the appearance of Ancient Evenings, he spends five days as a hard-working fellow at the University of Pennsylvania. The undergraduates who trail him through his meetings, classes, lectures and ten-hour daily schedules were not even born in 1960, when Mailer established his notoriety by stabbing his second wife Adele; they were pre-teens nine years later when he ran for mayor of New York City. They are tadpoles...
...limited forces. By comparison, the "Zionist Revisionist movement," from which Prime Minister Menachem Begin's Likud government was born, has always given "war a larger place." With their "mystique of heroism . . . martial songs, uniforms, parades and unofficial armies," Eban writes, the Revisionists, even 40 years ago, "did not shrink from personal assassinations and attacks on predominantly civilian Arab targets." Last year, he adds, a similar spirit moved Israeli forces to invade Lebanon with many grand ambitions. But "nine months later," writes Eban, "not one of these objectives has been achieved." Eban takes care, however, to criticize Begin no more...