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… dissensus, and anxiety pervade our consideration of the complex issues surrounding nuclear deterrence. Disagreements … In his 1946 book, The Absolute Weapon , Bernard Brodie argued for the notion of a nuclear revolution: “Thus far … weapons, can be morally sanctioned. But they divide on two points: first on the moral status of the threat embodied in …

… in the smell of stone. What’s hunger but a smell of stone. Come here] Closer. This is the well so deep there’s no …  killing stragglers with butts of rifles, knives, you died  in the mud and were left behind like garbage and he’d … old when a relative said scornfully no he hadn’t, he’d died in the POW camp, and when your uncle went to see his …

… attack, but for years afterward she asked for it. There was also a house of cards (the two of them on the floor like … Artie’s always been musical. Hum a tune to him and out it comes on the keyboard, no sheet music or nothing. But Evy … without interest. I thought of Ben, how he had the store—kiddie clothes—going fine in Schenectady until he got in the …

… York: Charles Scribner’s Sons. Each volume, 90 cents. The complete set, $28.80. A generation has passed since Robert Louis Stevenson died in far-away Samoa, a generation that has seen many … time has been having its revenges on the older man who has also lived apart, through a lifetime, from his …

… I am apprehensive, elated, curious, expectant: a Yankee come to the Deep South. There doesn’t seem much cause for … fable the actual graduation of a wife of a Confederate soldier at Russell Auditorium, where Flannery O’Connor herself … her after graduation. I tried to stay away from her, she points out. She had a very sharp tongue, and I did not want …