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...incident and the issues raised this week should cause us all to search out and fully examine the hidden sources of our attitudes and values and to further understand the extent of our damage that the resultant images and stereotyping (in all their forms, whether blatant or subtle) wreak upon their subject and those who use them. Kate Chaffee...
...many additives of the nuclear age that while many nations depend on nuclear weapons for their security nobody really knows how much damage those weapons would actually wreak in the event of nuclear war. Though nuclear weapons tests have been conducted since the dawn of the nuclear era history offers us only two instances of military use the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki...
...whole issue seems to rest upon the world's desire to force Israel to live up to some impossible standard Other countries wreak violence and destruction at will and are never called to account (Syria and Soviet Union spring immediately to mind), while Israel is condemned for even being indirectly involved in "immorality." Israel does indeed practice a higher morality; its troops risk their own lives rather than endanger civilians, and its society is free and open. But Israel cannot afford to be unrealistic. She is surrounded by hostile neighbors, and is scorned by a hypocritical world, much of which...
...interpretation to his work. For him Pericles symbolizes modern American man. His character becomes a latter 20th-century well-to-do Everyman in the odyssey of life. Pericles's court the corporate boardroom and his nobles its directors. Dissatisfied with business life and wary of the evil it can wreak, he leaves Easy Street to live adventure and try his fortune. After ups and downs, he finds his greatest solace in having his own family. Affairs of business (the board of directors wants a new chairman) drive him away again, and in that journey his family is torn asunder, eclipsed...
...impression conveyed by the Administration that it is again getting itchy for a military quick fix. But any military action that would be quick would not be, almost by definition, a true fix, and might well end up being the opposite. Sending in U.S. combat forces would surely wreak political havoc at home before it could prove decisive against the guerrillas in El Salvador. As for Nicaragua, a full-scale U.S.-supported invasion by the contras and the Honduran armed forces might drive the Sandinistas back into the countryside, but almost certainly the war would...