Interesting, Tina. Did Cohn discover whether Russians talked about their
deterrence theories in similar desensitized terms?
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Poetryetc: poetry and poetics [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On
> Behalf Of Tina Bass
> Sent: 30 December 2007 10:21
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> Subject: Re: revised "Keep On Keeping On," and "Amends"
>
> Fred, Doug,
>
> I think that Carol Cohn's research into the language of nuclear defence is
> really interesting. I'm skipping over the surface of a lot of things at
the
> moments so apologies if this is not related.
>
>
>
http://books.google.com/books?id=SAY5idFoyS8C&pg=PA124&lpg=PA124&dq=carol+co
hn
> +nuclear&source=web&ots=oe-Ej2gDqs&sig=t3jfKHK-mm5VkvMgU6doDPnuTdU
>
>
> Tina
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> _man_dancing> Date: Sat, 29 Dec 2007 21:19:40 -0500> From:
> [log in to unmask]> Subject: Re: revised "Keep On Keeping On," and
"Amends">
> To: [log in to unmask]> > ----- Original Message ----- > From:
"Douglas
> Barbour" <[log in to unmask]>> To: <[log in to unmask]>> Sent:
> Saturday, December 29, 2007 2:08 PM> Subject: Re: revised "Keep On Keeping
> On," and "Amends"> > > Like them both, as here, Fred.> > This moment for
the
> engineer is telling; it's a major point made by> Jared Diamond in
COLLAPSE,
> about why so many continue to do things that> can only forward the
destruction
> of our world. From their point of> view, under the agendas they follow,
what
> they do is 'rational.'> > Doug> > I love that book. If it could be
universally
> assigned, freshman year high > school ...
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