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...Undergraduate Council passed Sunday night between its discussion of such lofty issues as the morality of University investments South Africa and the naming of a chair at Kennedy School to allocate 20s to Princeton University--for a first class postage stamp...
...hopes, and illusions. I have always felt that the year and decade of reaching one's majority, rather than of one's birth, is the stamp one bears. I think of myself as a child of the '30s. I was a believed then, as I suppose people in their 20s must be (or, were, in my generation). I believed that the right and rational would...
...result, the Soviet Union was at a distinct and permanent advantage. Its bargaining chips, the SS-20s, were already on the table, and its ability to play them was not subject to the veto of nervous allies. Even if the Soviets fail in their first objective, which is stopping deployment altogether, the episode will be likely to leave the alliance internally traumatized and all the more susceptible to divisive Soviet tactics in the future...
...although, to be sure, they do not compensate for the Soviet monopoly in one category of weaponry: numerous, highly accurate, land-based missiles that can reach targets throughout Europe in a matter of minutes. Therefore none of the existing Western weapons should be given equal treatment with Soviet SS-20s on the agenda of the INF negotiations. The British and French forces in particular should be left aside entirely. Mostly submarine-based, less accurate and less destructive, they have as their prime purpose to defend Britain and France alone, not the Western alliance as a whole. The U.S. cannot bargain...
...closer to the fashion industry than to the centers of the art world. González painted, mostly awkward imitations of Puvis de Chavannes. He drew, with ability. He turned his metalworker's hand to making hammered copper masks. This went on through the teens and '20s. In short, González took longer to peck his way out of the egg than any modern artist of comparable stature, and what cracked the shell and released him was his relationship to his fellow Spaniard in Paris, Picasso...