Word: testing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...mild-mannered crew coach, disrobes backstage at Symphony each Saturday evening to reveal a stiff white collar caked with stale rosin from last weekend's manic rendition of Bruckner's eighth? Seems just about everyone is in on the adventure. And who could resist? With the opportunity to test your skills in the stern of a Harvard boat, you might even find yourself waiting in line behind George Plimpton...
...reborn on stage. Part of Shakespeare's genius, as any good reader of the "Sources" section of Signet editions knows, was to find the dramatic in someone else's plot. An academician will tell you there is universal meaning and appeal in great works of art. As if to test that definition, playwrights have frequently adapted recongnized greats to new settings and genres. This spring Harvard dramatics offers all kinds of adaptations: Antigone is transported to a troubled Latin American nation and "Wherefore art thou" is put to music. Adaptations are a recognized art form. As T.S. Eliot said...
Soviet Assurances. While the statements themselves deserved to be viewed with some skepticism, the tone of Brezhnev's remarks was significant. Immediately after the U.S. election, some Western experts had feared that Brezhnev would be tempted to test the new President by increasing East-West tensions (TIME, Nov. 29). Later Brezhnev sent word through former Treasury Secretary William Simon that this was not the case. The Tula speech and a surprisingly effusive orchestration of pro-Carter sentiment in the Soviet press have appeared to underscore Brezhnev's new assurances. This enthusiasm will probably be tempered by the Kremlin...
Initial Confusion. Carter's call for a comprehensive nuclear test ban will be even harder to achieve than SALT. Since 1963, the U.S., the U.S.S.R. and Britain have observed a ban on atmospheric explosions and have detonated all their atomic devices underground-a restraint conspicuously ignored by France and China (India tested its nuclear explosive underground). Carter now wants to extend the 1963 ban to subterranean testing. The U.S. and the Soviet Union have already negotiated two partial underground bans. An accord signed in mid-1974 bars underground nuclear blasts greater than the equivalent of 150 kilotons...
...possible next steps. The advantage of a comprehensive ban, if accepted by all nations, is that it would significantly check the spread of nuclear weapons and weapons-making capability. But a ban would be meaningless without the cooperation of China, France and India. Some experts caution that a comprehensive test ban would also prevent the U.S. from verifying that its nuclear weapons remained in working order...