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...helplessness" in the face of a problem utterly beyond individual control. Moreover, he argues, to draw any shocked or outraged response from an increasingly desensitized public requires "more and more chilling demonstrations" of the horror of nuclear war. But paradoxically people simply grow desensitized to the demonstrations. This most vicious of vicious circles creates a kind of consensus by default for the bellicose plans of "thinkables" in the Pentagon and the Kremlin...
...remain fresh enough in South American minds to arouse what we must hope is unjustified paranoia. Until the U.S. ceases its open hostility the Nicaraguans will likely continue to buy arms--taking needed resources away from other parts of a troubled economy and fueling what has become a diplomatic vicious circle...
...licks the wounds of recent Chicago battles--battles which rage unabated, awaiting his return. While ineptly ministering to the miseries of his emigre/astronomer ("Palomar calibre") wife. Minna (perhaps Bellow is losing his old feisttness: this protagonist is happily married, with no Renatas or Ramonas to scheme over him, no vicious wives trying to castrate him), and sucking down plum brandy. Corde explores the smoldering wreckage of life in Chicago, his and the city...
Intel President Andrew Grove predicts that his and other semiconductor firms can defeat the Japanese challenge. Says he: "Our industry is in a critical stage of development, with our market under attack. We are now fighting a vicious assault; but so far as I am concerned, we will succeed...
...time I stayed there, they tried to set some guy on fire." Billy (he does not give his last name) spent most of last winter searching for shelter-in Penn Station, in the steam tunnels under New York City's streets, in abandoned buildings. Perhaps in this most vicious winter he would not have made it. There are an estimated 36,000 homeless men and women in New York City, and last winter at least 20 died of exposure...