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...Soviet Union, a success of all the states advocating the aversion of the danger of a new war." Lord Home orated emotionally, saying the treaty meant that "every human family can live, from now on, free from fear that their unborn children will be affected by man-made poison...
...excellent television address, the nuclear test ban treaty just negotiated with the Soviet Union and the United Kingdom is not the beginning of the millenium. Rather, it is an extremely limited document, providing only for an end to non-underground tests. These explosions, which are relatively easy to detect, poison the atmosphere without necessarily improving the military position of the country making them. The cessation of these explosions, while possibly reducing international antagonism, does not mean the end of rivalry between the great powers, and it does not make future nuclear confrontations impossible...
...Guide is derived primarily from Ernest Hemingway. Consider this passage from a section on probing for mines: "Echelon men 15 to 25 M to minimize casualties." This tone of taut realism is characteristic of the book. Its author, also anonymous, gives these instructions for testing for the presence of poison gas: "Nerve agents being quick killers, make test with detectors, then have 2 or 3 men unmask for 5 min.... If no symptoms, unmask...
Cobb College is a rich New Hampshire institution, well stocked with preposterous pedants, campus lagos, academic racketeers and addled eggheads. As such, it is the latest member of the poison ivy league founded by Mary McCarthy (Groves of Academe), Vladimir Nabokov (Pnin) and Randall Jarrell (Pictures from an Institution). It may or may not be patterned on Wesleyan University's Institute of Advanced Studies, where Novelist Pamela Hansford Johnson spent some time with her husband Sir Charles Snow as visiting British fellows...
...discussion of public issues; the only activities suitable for them are Yard punches and mixer dances. In addition, the Summer School underestimates its own faculty when it claims that the menace of "unrepresentative" opinions comes only from outside the University. There are enough faculty members with controversial views to poison the mind of the most protected Summer School student...