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...crisis over American missile deployment to counter the Soviet theater nuclear threat in Western Europe is only the latest symptom of a deep and recurring anxiety: How can Europeans be sure that the U.S. will be at its partners' side if Moscow launches an attack? Europeans continue to worry about that, even though the U.S. made the pledge at the beginning of the most successful defensive alliance in modern European history, the 15-nation North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO...
Antiunion sentiment seems to be everywhere, and not just among white-collar suburbanites. A symptom of this was the public support President Reagan got when he fired 11,500 air-traffic controllers who struck illegally in August. Says Victor Gotbaum, head of New York City's largest (109,000 members) public employee union and one of organized labor's most powerful voices: "Not even Eisenhower or Richard Nixon did that...
...that it stays completely in the world of ordinary consciousness, of history and fact and daily life. It does not wander into myth, the dark of nature, or sexuality, fun as that might be to read. The passage about lovemaking is about sex manuals--technics--which is just another symptom of anxiety and planning ahead. These too are "as free of people as a garden is, or as a plan...
...there are other, even less beguiling vignettes: in one scene Greeley portrays "a disciple of the Berrigans'," proclaiming that "we will make bombs, find guns; we will burn, trash and destroy." That is not what the Berrigans have ever preached, as Greeley well knows. But it is a symptom of the rage that runs through the novel. Kennedy's fighting Irish brawl, then hug and forgive. Greeley tries to allow his to do the same, but while the ritual words are pronounced, the absolution never quite seems to come. -By Mayo Mohs
...avid Space-Invaders player, and although I fortunately do not suffer from the painful wrist ailment you described, I do occasionally have another notorious illness, "Space-Invaders hand." The symptom is a painful stiffness centered on the top of the hand about an inch and a half from the knuckles. I believe that this is caused by the unnatural angle at which one must keep his hand to play the video game...