Word: coldness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Even a professional cast would have difficulty infusing emotion into heavy-handed lines like, "Can it be possible I have to die so suddenly? So young to go under the obscure, cold, rotting, wormy ground! To be nailed down into a narrow place; to see no more sweet sunshine; hear no more blithe voice of living thing; muse not again upon familiar thoughts, sad, yet thus lost--How fearful! to be nothing...
...year ago this week, in what may be the most important speech ever delivered before the U. N. General Assembly, Gorbachev put on a bravura performance of what he calls new political thinking and set an agenda for a post-cold-war world order. He proclaimed a benevolent decimation of the Soviet armed forces, an effective 10% drawdown in manpower and hardware. He earned loud cheers and enthusiastic praise around the world, but not from the newly elected leader in Washington. George Bush was into his prudence thing, not his vision thing. As the Administration took shape, it radiated...
...that this is the collapse of socialism. On the contrary, it means that the socialist process in the world will pursue its further development in a multiplicity of forms. Let us leave it to experts in anti-Communist propaganda to rejoice in the 'triumph of capitalism' in the cold...
...Blue X Conspiracy contains reminders of how the current climate of U.S.-Soviet relations affects decision making, whether in a mock crisis or a real one. Such a game would probably not have been played in the depths of the cold war, but if it had, there would probably have been considerably more saber rattling, perhaps even nuclear warnings. In the Gorbachev era, both sides go out of their way to avoid escalation. The Soviets cancel strategic exercises because they might be misunderstood. In the investigation of the poison-gas attack in Washington, Georgi Arbatov, the director of the Institute...
...Since Webster," she said to a group of suburban supporters at a fund raiser recently, "we now must fight this battle in 50 states." Cold fire stirs in her voice. "If we can't preserve the privacy of our right to procreate, I can't imagine what rights we will be able to protect. It's a temptation to grow weary with all the battles still to be fought. But it's also an opportunity to show the finest...