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There is nothing wrong with such a public relations ploy. There was no shortage of salesmanship in the Nixon-Kissinger era, and Gorbachev's own proposals have been largely propaganda. But the trick--which Nixon and Kissinger mastered, and Gorbachev too seems to be learning quickly--is to play for the galleries without jeopardizing what can be achieved at the bargaining table...
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...authority over nature than they had before, it proved how helpless they were when handling natural forces. Since that time, there seems to have been a general divorce of human life from other natural phenomena. It is as if people concluded that with atomic chain reactions nature played a trick on the world, and is no longer to be trusted as an ally...
Coming to terms with nature simply means coming to terms with its neutrality, and that ultimately means coming to terms with oneself. If some "trick" was played by nuclear fission, it was people who played the trick on themselves. In a lecture to fellow scientists, Oppenheimer said, "In some sort of crude sense which no vulgarity, no humor, no overstatement can quite extinguish, the physicists have known sin; and this is a knowledge which they cannot lose." Oppenheimer's presumption is that the physicists, as people, had not known sin before making the Bomb, which sounds like wishful confessing. Nature...
Hometown is shaping up as this summer's Call to Glory. Like ABC's critically applauded family drama, introduced last August, Hometown is hoping to build an audience during the last weeks of summer; a spot is already reserved for it on the fall schedule. The trick will be to avoid the fate of Call to Glory, which started strongly but gradually withered under the fall competition. Like any other series looking to survive beyond the summer, Hometown must prove it is a show for all seasons. --By Richard Zoglin. Reported by Richard Woodbury/Los Angeles