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Common Cause.The right-to-spy proposition had its domestic critics from the beginning. Adlai Stevenson recognized the need for intelligence but asked: "Is it possible that we. the United States . . . could do the very thing we dread: carelessly, accidentally trigger the holocaust?" Columnist Walter Lippmann kept up a running battle from the legal flank: "To avow that we intend to violate Soviet sovereignty is to put everybody on the spot . . . The avowal is an open invitation to the Soviet government to take the case to the United Nations, where our best friends will be grievously embarrassed...
...Italians. And the father once put brutally what he thinks on the subject: "They write that we should answer what happened to the Italian soldiers who fought against us, invaded our country, and never returned to Italy. Don't they know what war is? War is a holocaust into which you jump, but it is hard to jump out again. You burn up. And in the war, the Italian soldiers burned...
...human and cultural desert. Misshapen biological monsters and primitive nomadic tribes roam the land, while a few neofeudal barons control certain territories-for instance, "Texarkana." The only oases of learning in this new Dark Age are the monastic orders of the Roman Catholic Church, which has miraculously survived the holocaust of the "Flame Deluge," albeit with a "New Rome." The desert monastery around which this book revolves is Leibowitz Abbey...
...grandstand play, capitalizing mercilessly on the lurking fear of nuclear holocaust, Khrushchev's brash maneuver might win him some propaganda advantage with plain people around the world. And some U.S. officials continued to argue that Khrushchev genuinely wants some measure of disarmament, which would permit him to switch military manpower and funds into raising Soviet living standards. But in blasting off so crudely from his U.N. launching pad, Nikita had displayed a brute cynicism that repelled responsible statesmen everywhere. "It sounds so easy," said an Asian delegate to the U.N. "I think he must take us for morons...
Love with Torture. Author Humes has devised a story that goes well beyond the tensions and the holocaust on the island. At the funeral, young Sulgrave meets the commander's wife, and there begins a tortured, driving love affair that is not only credible but deeply revealing. Through it the reader and Sulgrave begin to see what made the commander and Lieut. Dolfus the inscrutable men they seemed on the island. Theirs had been a common past, itself a prelude to ultimate unhappiness...