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...been maintained by the controlled use of fear. The horror of nuclear war has greatly troubled every President, and yet all of them since 1945 have conditioned themselves to plan nuclear strategy coolly and prudently. The experts tend to agree that too much fear in the Oval Office would warp judgments and make crises more likely...
...science was then, at least in some areas, in a similar state. Learned astronomers argued vociferously over whether our galaxy, the Milky Way, was alone or only one of many islands of stars. In medicine, the first sulfa drugs were unheard of. Physicists, having recently discovered that gravity could warp space and time, were now catching glimpses of an even wilder idea: that at its fundamental level, of atomic particles, the universe was governed entirely by chance. There was not a hint of the powerful forces these ideas would eventually unleash...
...mentioned as a possible successor to Bowie Kuhn. The new diet fad, "weight clauses," has been somewhat annoying to fans who regard being in shape as the minimum requirement for being a professional athlete. Every Friday home game this season that Atlanta Third Base man Bob Horner does not warp the scale past 215 Ibs., he gains $7,692.31. Ozzie Smith, the Cardinals' nimble shortstop, doubled his salary to $1 million. Fernando Valenzuela also won $1 milion, in arbitration against the Dodgers. Steve Carlton's, reaction was to renegotiate an even richer deal with the Phillies, making...
Commissioner Gordon enters, blasting out the Romantics' "What I Like About You" and driving us into a New Wave frenzy. There's no resting now; no slow songs for a change of pace. "Time Warp" from The Rocky Horror Picture Show forces us once again to perform--this time it's a jump to the left, a step to the right, our hands on our hips, and our legs in tight. We all thrust our communal pelvises, though this time it hurts...
...balk at the claim that political condemnation of Israel signals the presence of anti-Semitism. Of course, the relationship is by no means categorical--many Jews and Judeophiles themselves, for example, have vehemently attacked Tel Aviv's foreign policy in recent months. And the idea that anti-Semitism could warp people's views on political issues seem distant to most. It's easy to forget that only 40 years ago, one of the most civilized nations on the globe carried out the systematic slaughter of six million people out of pure anti-Semitism. The frequent and sometimes offhand mention...