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...William James, was last pressed into service by Jimmy Carter to gird us for the energy crisis. Before that, we have had wars on poverty, crime, cancer and even war itself (World War I). Now, Mr. Carter knew that turning down thermostats and risking lives in combat make disproportionate claims on the citizenry. Indeed, he sought to exploit that disproportion to rally the nation to the unglamorous task of conserving energy. The idea was to make the notion of conserving energy more important. What went unconsidered was what that kind of linguistic maneuver does to the idea of going...
What astonishes me about the Harvard Strike--which stands here as an example of the radical student movement of the 1960s--when I think of it a decade and a half later, is the peculiar disproportion between means and ends, between what we then called our "militancy" and the unprepossessing...
Despite this disproportion, The Oxford Book of Dreams is an irresistible sampler. Reading Artemidorus (circa A.D. 150) is like eavesdropping in the imperial marketplace: "Someone dreamt that he had an iron penis. He fathered a son who killed him. For iron is consumed by the rust that it produces from...
Henry Kissinger recently addressed this issue in Time, writing that "the primary cause of instability with current weapons systems is the disproportion between warheads and launchers...there is no effective or intellectually adequate solution to this problem except to seek to eliminate multiple warheads within a fixed time, say 10...
Living With Nuclear Weapons may well have little practical impact: the disproportion between man's ability to eliminate nuclear arms and nuclear arms' capacity to eliminate man is the most tragic irony of the nuclear age. But if the first four decades of coexisting with nuclear weaponry proves anything, it...