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CURRENT WISDOM The New York Times Beyond Marx, beyond Freud, even beyond Alvin Toffler, the esteemed Mrs. T. Thevenin takes mankind into the dawn of a new and luminous age via the sheets: The new...
...Such a contradiction could perhaps be endured so long as there were reason to believe that the Soviets also subscribed to a policy of "mutual stability...
...He would back off and then fly headlong into the side...
...What the hell is this...
...The MX force "should prove untargetable (with profit) and should threaten the survivability of the essential elements of the Soviet state...
...Ned smiled back, studying him...
...An MX/MPS system, with the ballistic missile defense systems recommended by Gray, should prove to be a nightmare not only to Soviet defense planners, but to substantial elements of the arms control community as well...
...Issue #48] The Star Ledger (Newark, Newjersey) The lascivious amusements of an ambitious belletrist sweating mightily in the correspondence section of his hometown gazette: Dear Editor: I finally succumbed to the adverse publicity and purchased a gypsy moth trap...
...Hot this, hot that...
...After hanging the trap, I quietly watched to see if this product of man's ingenious scientific and industrial research would work...
...Finally, he found the inconspicuous entrance and into the trap he tumbled...
...If U.S...
...He had given way to blind panic and he now would never find his way out of the trap...
...Barzini writes that "Italy has never been as good as the sum of her people...
...His antennas were broken his legs were twisted grotesquely and one of his wings was split...
...Parents say that usually a child chooses to sleep in his own room between the ages of 2 and 7, sometimes in the same bed with a brother or sister, but some say that their 13-year-old will sleep with them when undergoing a crisis...
...Italian businesses have broken themselves down into their component parts, parts too small to be brought to ruin by the government's predatory labor and tax regulations...
...The large corporations lose a little less money...
...When you stop to think about it, how extraordinary that so many far-flung people should know or care about the lot of creatures remote from them in every way...
...I've noticed...
...alas, he died violently...
...Only $9.98...
...I feel somewhat guilty about the death of that gypsy moth...
...The moth died because we adjudged he was destructive of our environment...
...But the latest generation of Soviet missiles and highly accurate warheads demonstrates that they do not...
...asked Michael...
...Systems and strategies geared to negate an opponent's retaliatory capability and having no direct bearing on the preservation of a dependable deterrent should be rejected as destabilizing...
...RUN FOR YOUR LIVES: Is a purge of leftists teachers under way in the nation's colleges...
...He never contaminated a river with chemicals, and he certainly never vandalized a building or desecrated a cemetery...
...Butwhatdo I wear} I mean, there's a big demand for the All-Ameri-can look, and I do that pretty well...
...The 14 different shades of jockstraps and those god-damn mirrored sunglasses that toss your own face back at you when you walk into a bar...
...And this strategic plight cannot be redressed by increasing general-purpose forces alone...
...For as long as there has been an Italy, the Italian people have been presented with the same problem, he writes, " 'how to survive and possibly prosper in the midst of corruption . . . bloody tyrants, and their greedy courtiers...
...Why does debris occasionally take wing from the windows of Rome...
...Gray's rationale for the MX/MPS system flies in the face of the arms control policies that have influenced U.S...
...I love men...
...Then Michael said, "Do you ever get tired of all this...
...Later their creations are gathered up by the great houses of Bulgari, Petocchi, and Cartier, who sell them to the world...
...deterrent-one which would discourage the Soviets from planning for victory in a nuclear war-requires a survivable, hard-target counterforce capability, which would allow the United States to escalate its way out of a local defeat...
...Ned spooned yogurt into his mouth...
...Similar reasoning was used to justify the U.S...
...perspective, a properly designed and politically supported MX/MPS system can have only a favorable effect on the SALT process...
...Only the MX missile, with the high accuracy and yield of its ten warheads, fulfills this requirement...
...Ned smiled...
...People say the book has helped them relax - it's about mothering and trusting your child," said Mrs...
...First he was a caterpillar, who for a month or two, lived on tree leaves...
...Then be an Ail-American nun...
...You're going, aren't you ?'' "Sure...
...On the other hand, I'd sorta like to be a nun this year...
...rather, it is an idiotic rendering of the welfare state, and the courtiers are the greedy pols who nervously attempt to outdo each other in spectacles of generosity with no thought whatsoever for how this gorgeous gravy train is to be financed...
...No millenium has arrived, to be sure, even in the case of the whales with all the latter-day recognition of their mental and physical attributes...
...I am not ready yet to run about the yard proclaiming that the sky is falling but it is a little hard to rejoice in the morale of a country which, having been shown excellence by Jefferson and Buster Keaton, is now dancing attendance on the likes of Reagan and Brooks...
...April 23, 1981] Vegetarian Times The Kapitalist spirit stalks the pages of the preeminent ideological organ of post-menopause 1960s radicalism: Cosmic Hourglass-incredibly beautiful cassette suitable for relaxation, meditation, hypnosis...
...Possibly the municipal garbage collectors will have it no other way...
...September 19, 1981] O'ROURKE (continued from page 39) than total vulnerability would be to the Soviet Union, because the United States has always relied, almost exclusively, on superior strategic power to deter the Soviets...
...In short, only the MX missile offers the combination of survivability, flexibility, accuracy, and promptness of response necessary for the United States to execute a sound war plan...
...He fluttered around the top, clawing at the clear plastic...
...Yet how natural...
...strategic programs since the late 1960s...
...All this little moth did was do what nature designed him to do...
...A moment passed...
...EDITORIAL (continued from page 5) to appear...
...The achievement, according to Italy's imperturbable sage, Luigi Barzini, is typically Italian...
...Although the MX missile alone cannot guarantee U.S...
...Although manned bombers and cruise missiles can destroy hard military and political control targets, only the MX missile can rapidly destroy hard military targets before they inflict damage on the United States...
...Under such circumstances, Gray argues, if the Soviet Union faced conventional military defeat in Europe or in the Persian Gulf region, it "could-and almost certainly would -escalate the conflict in search of an acceptable outcome...
...You've got an answer for everything...
...The wife of a psychiatrist friend once complained to me that The Marriage of Maria Braun was the work of a constipated artist...
...The tyrant today is not a bloody prince...
...Ned laughed...
...Andrew Sarris, some surprising confusion over human biology, suggesting, once again the Nation's profound need of sexual education and therapy: Many people whose opinions I deeply respect have successfully resisted Fass-binder up to now...
...No...
...Inside the trap are two elements...
...The present government of Prime Minister Giovanni Spadolini is a 8r°ggy alliance of five political parties, each eyeing the exits...
...With deployment of the MX/MPS system, "Moscow would have every incentive to alleviate its strategic planning problems through substantive SALT solutions...
...The Galleria parties...
...Stephen Moriak Jersey City [August 1, 1981] The Nation Samuel J. Stoloff, a. Nation intern also serving the cause of Art as a staff member of "the American Writers Congress," puts to the Nation's credulous audience a chilling question...
...The world's automobile industry may be in the doldrums, but Italian automobile sales are up 3.7 percent over last year...
...About what...
...Although some readers may not agree with Gray's answers, he has illuminated neglected issues and elevated the level of the debate...
...policy makers begin to address Soviet war-fighting and war-winning doctrines, instead of indulging in dangerous "mirror image" assumptions...
...The whole international effort to agree on saving the whales is one more evidence of human advancement to put against the violence and depredation that hang on in the midst of civilized times...
...I don't mean being homosexual," said Michael...
...Ah...
...To live in Italy one must be prepared to adapt...
...A Lacosteawi/er your habit," said Ned...
...The parade...
...strategic forces are inferior, or marginally adequate, it follows that the Unites States' military posture and deterrent strength lack integrity...
...Ahab is undone: The encouraging steps at the latest whaling conference are really about something bigger than whales...
...I wouldn't change that for anything...
...For one thing, ballistic missile defense of the MX/MPS system would require the United States to withdraw from the 1972 Treaty on Anti-Ballistic Missile Systems...
...From this perspective, he argues that a properly designed MX force "should deter a Soviet strategic attack of any kind" and act as an escalation "firebreak...
...You could become a lesbian...
...How can they be in the sauve-qui-peut atmosphere of inflation and the productivity crisis afflicting contemporary capitalism...
...That way I can swing into action quicker...
...Of the Western Europeans they import the most French champagne...
...Nor are the Italians simply spendthrifts...
...In evaluating the course of the SALT negotiations since their inception, Gray notes that the Soviet Union has not agreed to any "restraint that would likely have a net negative impact on its war-waging/ war winning ability...
...The smaller inch-square strip of paper-like material is impregnated with the sexual scent of the female moth, which incidentally, cannot fly...
...The coercive potential borne of the Soviets' unilateral counterforce capability is undeniable...
...I cannot avoid bracketing it with the success of Ronald Reagan as evidence that Americans can now be counted on to rally behind anyone who offers them a debased performance expensively staged and aggressively promoted...
...Go for the nun," he said...
...As the European edition of Time magazine noted in an impressively knowledgeable report recently: "Italians survive in spite of a vast gap between them and their increasingly weak and ineffective governments...
...The submerged economy prospers-at least until the government can lay hands on it...
...A Lacoste habit...
...A male moth had picked up the female sex-scent and was trying to gain entrance...
...In about seven minutes there was no longer any movement...
...He never polluted a beach with oil...
...A concomitant of this policy has been a relatively low level of American conventional forces...
...It became obvious that he was doomed...
...In recent years the dominant arms control theory has been one of so-called "mutual stability," which holds that arms race competition is fueled by first strike fears arising from weapons programs designed to destroy at least part of the opponent's capability to wreak massive damage in a second strike...
...He never defiled a road with a beer can...
...Senate's refusal in 1971 to approve funds for improved warhead accuracy...
...The establishment of large efficient factories is impossible in Italy, so world-renowned designers such as Emilio Pucci contract their work out to small groups of craftsmen who often live in remote regions...
...competitive performance...
...By making land-based missile survivability bilateral, the MX/MPS system denies the Soviets the planning option of devastating countermilitary nuclear strikes and guarantees "that no unilateral advantage could possibly be secured by straight, unconstrained competition...
...I guess I'm talking about the culture," Michael continued...
...The state-owned industries lose money...
...He was frantic...
...Italians lead all Europeans in ownership of second homes...
...It may be true that a United States stripped of its land-based missiles could still reduce much of the Soviet Union to rubble...
...In response to this new tyranny the Italians now have their submerged economy...
...July 28, 1981] The Village Voice Midst a cinematic cerebration by the accoladed cinematologist, Dr...
...The nursery, you mean...
...Clearly, U.S...
...Without a survivable land-based missile force, the ' 'United States will face unprecedented risks of political and military defeat...
...What do you think...
...strategic programs have labored under a persistent contradiction between a policy committed, on the one hand, to "mutual stability," and on the other, to a defense of NATO, which would require responding to a major Soviet conventional attack with disarming nuclear strikes...
...Soft piano music and the spoken word gently guide you into a state of profound relaxation...
...Michael thought for a moment...
...About a half-hour passed...
...Down at the bottom, lifeless, there lay the moth...
...Business was so brisk at the nursery that it was 2 o'clock before they sat down amidst the other living things requiring partial shade and contemplated their Yoplait...
...Michael smiled at his friend...
...What the Italians have done is create a third economy, a submerged economy...
...They save a larger percentage of their incomes than any of their neighbors...
...The most astonishing aspect of Italian life today is how well people are living...
...Where's the orgy...
...Under these circumstances, Gray argues that from the U.S...
...The knowledge that these Soviet strategic weapons were conceived and designed in the late 1960s and early 1970s, when the United States was exercising substantial self-restraint in arms competition, must be unsettling for even the most ardent supporter of "mutual stability...
...Ned shrugged...
...Even though I disagreed with her, I think I understood what she meant...
...In the meantime some things are not so bad...
...What should I do...
...With caution-but still one walks, and thousands of Romans make their rounds unscathed...
...Few expect the scene to endure...
...Being gay...
...He flapped about hysterically inside the little container, desperately looking for escape...
...June 21, 1981] San Francisco Chronicle An example of significant literary developments not far from the San Andreas fault featured only in the high-toned pages of the illustrious Chronicle of San Francisco: The weather had been relentlessly sunny for almost a week, so Michael and Ned had their hands full at God's Green Earth...
...How does one walk the streets of Rome...
...I like it...
...Only the French guzzle more imported Scotch...
...Exactly what was his crime...
...This category encompasses offensive weapons programs, such as warhead accuracy and yield improvements, which could provide land or seabased missiles with the ability to launch counter-force strikes against Soviet intercontinental ballistic missiles...
...February 20, 1981] The Christian Science Monitor From an intrepid CSM foreign correspondent, still more glad tidings of human benignancy...
...The T-shirts with the let's-get-it-on slogans...
...I approached the trap and looked in...
...According to Jerome Kahan, in his influential book Security in the "Nuclear Age: [I]n order to establish a mutual stability policy, it is necessary to classify strategic systems as stabilizing or destabilizing and to avoid the latter...
...rather, the Soviets have cooperated "to the degree they judge useful to inhibit U.S...
...July 8-14, 1981] The Nation Comic Mel Brooks placed in historical and metaphysical perspective by the movie critic of the ever-reliable Nation: Mel Brooks, it must be evident, bores and depresses me...
...Gray asserts that genuine strategic stability can be established only when U.S...
...I'm sick of it, Ned...
...There's gotta be another way to be queer...
...His antennas flicked this way and that way...
...They remained there in the dappled light, finishing their lunches in silence...
...the magnitude of the threat requires "thinking about the unthinkable" in a resolute and responsible manner...
...Suspended from a limb of a pinoak tree, the trap looked like a harmless plastic bird-feeder and its quaint appearance belied, that for the male gypsy moth, it was a house of death...
...Rome's greatest silversmiths and goldsmiths, the Mortets, create their beautiful artwork in a tiny studio at the back of an obscure courtyard...
...It was done...
...T. Thevenin takes mankind into the dawn of a new and luminous age via the sheets: The new philosophy advocates letting a child sleep with his parents until he decides to leave the family bed...
...Thevenin, a Minneapolis mother of two and author of "The Family Bed-An Age-Old Concept in Child Rearing," which has sold 35,000 copies although privately published and distributed...
...Money back guarantee...
...So there is foreboding, but here initially there is always foreboding...
...Like Superman...
...The larger strip, about three inches long and one-half inch wide, is impregnated with a deadly insecticide which is lethal to the male moth, which, unlike the female, has the ability to fly...
...Gray observes that in the Soviet view, deterrent effect flows from anticipated warfighting capabilities...
...The invisible insecticide insidiously gnawed at his body and he thrashed about looking for the aperture by which he had entered...
...There is something blocked up in Fassbinder despite his apparent fecundity...
...So vast has this decentralization, process become that economists believe Italy's gross national product of $393 billion last year may have been under-reported by as much as 30 percent...
...Free brochure and catalog listing self-hypnosis tapes...
...and the more conventional politicos are in their customary disarray...
...This decentralization-often encouraged by employees desirous of stable work conditions-has cut the cost of doing business in Italy and brought about Italy's mysterious prosperity...
...strategic superiority to take any potential "conflict to a higher level in quest of an improved outcome...
...NapaNew Age Enterprises, Dept V, 1698 San Vicente, Napa, CA 94558...
...There are no easy or pleasant solutions...
...The moth then seemed to realize that he had been tricked, and even worse, he seemed to realize that he was in an environment of certain death...
...Then he spun a cocoon from which he emerged as a moth with only one function, to find a female moth and propagate' the species . . . but this particular moth never made it...
...We took the passion with which he was naturally endowed and turned it into his vehicle of destruction...
...What!s that...
...Thevenin, who believes that the family bed satisfies the child's basic need for love and produces inner strength and a feeling of security...
...But Gray's differences with a major portion of the arms control community are more fundamental than those arising from his endorsement of ballistic missile defense...
...Suddenly, there was a fluttering around the trap...
...Have you ever tried making a date dressed as a nun...
...Sister Mary Mouse," he said...
...Then, too, the pols have been smilingly pliant before the demands of the country's top three trade union federations, so pliant in fact that in the 1970s Italian labor became Europe's most expensive-highly prone to absenteeism and to strikes...
...The scent, without a doubt, made that male moth believe that an orgy to end all orgies was occurring inside...
...land-based missile forces poses hard and fundamental problems for U.S...
...policy makers...
...In other words, the MX/MPS system reduces the risk of war...
...Phony soldiers and phony policemen and phony jocks...
...worse, his success frightens me...
...Gray readily concedes that the MX/MPS system "should be a nightmare to Soviet defense planners...
...Anticipating an inability to contain a Soviet attack in a vital local theatre-Europe, for example-the United States and its allies have relied upon U.S...
...It is proving to be a characteristic of humanity to widen its circle of concern from family, friends, neighbors, strangers within the gate-to every living thing...
...In such a climate, and particularly in a nation with the individualist political traditions and fragmented political institutions of the United States, the idea of collective action for improvement and self-government languishes...
...One could almost hear him yell with suprise...
...Today her people have moved circumspectly around the snares of Italian government...
...Ned grinned, tossing his yogurt cup into the trash...
...but most readers would probably agree with Gray that it is also "true that an ICBM-bereft United States should be convincingly self-deterred from ever exercising such an option.'' According to Gray, a creditable U.S...
...June 23, 1981] The Nation The idiot teemings of a mind thoroughly enshrouded by the cumulonimbus of Marxian ire-Professor Doktor Philip Green at work: The election of Ronald Reagan as President of the United States, following the installation of Margaret Thatcher as Prime Minister of Britian, confirmed that further advances in the direction of social and political equality are not on the immediate agenda in most advanced capitalist nations today...
...The Soviet threat to the U.S...
...victory, Gray believes that a properly designed system can guarantee Soviet defeat, "a prospect that Soviet General staff planners should find very discouraging...
...A growing number of parents admit that they allow their babies to sleep with them, said Mrs...
Vol. 14 • November 1981 • No. 11
