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...worry that when Schmidt meets with Soviet Communist Party Chief Leonid Brezhnev in Moscow next week, he might accept a freeze on new medium-range nuclear missiles in Europe. NATO plans to install 572 medium-range nuclear missiles by 1983, while the Soviets have already deployed about 200 SS-20s targeted on "Western Europe and are continuing to add them at a rate of about one a week. On the eve of the summit Carter sent Schmidt a harsh letter cautioning him against any freeze. Schmidt replied, in a letter described by aides as "dripping with irony and sarcasm," that...
...know what happens nowadays, but back in the '20s the College Doctor circulated through the Freshman dormitories giving talks on sex to small groups of boys. You could go if you wanted to: some did and some didn't. I found the sessions instructive and they may have delayed the beginning of my active sex life...
...world inside the confines of the College had been a hard world of a different sort, the end of the '20s, a different era from the beginning...
...conventional style of portraiture, often as insipid as the $3 million Acrobat sold to Japan in last week's Garbisch auction, to alternate with a highly decorative form of cubism. "Decorative," of course, is no longer a cuss word, and his best flat-pattern cubist paintings of the early '20s, with their gravely shuttling collage-like overlaps of bright and dark color, are marvels of pictorial intelligence. The two versions of his Three Musicians, 1921, show what Picasso could do when his sense of form was fully engaged. The classicizing drift of the early '20s took its most explicit shape...
...Holocaust by marking days of remembrance and Yom HaShoah (Shoah literally means destruction, and loosely translates to holocaust). As children of the survivors join their parents in lighting memorial candles to the dead, there is a growing sense that the children-now mostly young adults in their 20s or early 30s-are beginning to show some of the same emotional scars as their parents...