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Having passed the first barrier of disbelief, many readers may still feel that On Escalation is the outline of a horror story. There seems to be someing wrong with a theorist who constructs models of men dueling to the death in warehouses full of dynamite, and then worries about whether the lights will be on. People who criticize Kahn for being "cold-blooded" are on the right track, but they do not carry their reasoning far enough...
...Breakthrough. All through his 20s, Faraday was delayed in his scientific development by the ghastly gaps in his education. He was a magnificent "poetical" theorist, but his spelling was a sin and his math a calamity. Unable to make mathematical demonstrations, he was forced to execute physical proofs. Experiment was his instrument, and he employed it with prodigious ingenuity to demolish the world as science...
...even sharper attack on old-fashioned nationalism came from Political Theorist Hans Morgenthau, who pointed out "the discrepancy between our cerebral modes of thought and action and the unprecedented novelty of the circumstances in which we now live. The present age has made the idea of the nation-state as obsolete as feudalism was made obsolete 200 years ago by the invention of the steam engine. We must face the atomic age with a transformation of the whole way our government thinks and acts." In rejoinder, Protestant Theologian Paul Ramsey of Princeton warned that immediate abandonment of the nation concept...
...Richard Russell, Richard Nixon and the late Robert A. Taft all warmed to Columnist White. From White's host of friends, Johnson emerges as the man who best typifies all that Bill White says he values in the political craft. "He is a pragmatic man and not a theorist, an actionist and not a philosophic thinker," White once wrote of Johnson...
...collaborate in its publication. Looking Outward, as the volume is called, carries the subtitle "Years of Crisis at the United Nations." Actually, less than half of the book is devoted to Stevenson's U.N. speeches; but those speeches deserve some scrutiny. They demonstrate what happens to the theorist when he comes to power...