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BLOOD ON THE DOVES, by Maude Hutchins. In this profoundly frightening novel, Maude Hutchins pulls the reader into the mad tangle of a deranged mind...
...this point, or when reading about "stark" deterrence, which involves the capacity to completely destroy the enemy ten times over, the reader may reach an ostensible crisis of his own and refuse to take Kahn seriously. Such a reaction has two faults: it neglects Kahn's real insights into the nature and use of force, and it obscures the real weaknesses of his approach. Kahn is not "advocating" or "justifying" mass murder. He wishes to avoid nuclear war while pursuing some version of the national interest. To this end he asks the important question: under what circumstances is a nuclear...
...date is John A. William's article on Godard in the second issue. Williams writes so lucidly that he's sure to be bounced from the movie-crtics' union. He has synthesized aspects of four of Godard's movies well enough that his points are clear to a reader who has seen none of them, and interesting to one who has analyzed them...
...wars, which she covered for publications ranging from the Reader's Digest to LIFE to the National Geographic, Dickey never demanded any special treatment. Men did their best to keep her out of danger, but she always managed to find it. While covering the rebels in Algeria, she learned to subsist on a diet of half a dozen dates a day, to sleep on a rock, to urinate only once a day to prevent dehydration. She could do 50 pushups. "In fatigues and helmet," said an admiring Marine Corps commander in Viet Nam, "you couldn't tell...
...delicate cameo that freezes three people in postures that none of them finds comfortable, it is almost faultless. Its achievement is that with in credibly economical means, it suggests that each of these people will change, develop, shift in their relations to each other and makes the reader wonder what their future will be. Its failure is that Updike never explores that future...