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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...sensuality as a painter, and set it forth in what is, quite simply, the bravest performance abstract art has offered in years: manic energy channeled by an infrangible toughness of mind. Almost a decade ago, Leider's essay notes, Stella described his ambition- "to combine the abandon and indulgence of Matisse's Dance with the overall strength and sheer formal inspiration of . . . his Moroccans. " Perhaps that goal, like the target toward which Zeno's arrow flew, can never be reached...
...have compromised on the delicate issue of foreign intervention, and they have been pushed even further by the reservations. The opposition will doubtless goad them still more by urging reservations or amendments on the second treaty when it comes up for a vote. If the Panamanians should decide to abandon the treaty, the U.S. will be left with its great ditch, but it will be surrounded by a hostile population. For all their zeal in defending what they take to be the national interest, the treaty opponents may well be sabotaging...
...dozens. He plied hundreds of doubters with 100-proof Maxwell House coffee, and it may yet be proved that in the interests of the republic he authorized a three-martini lunch for a recalcitrant Senator or two. It is a fact that first-class limousine service was employed with abandon to cart the doubters up and down Pennsylvania Avenue...
Speaking of playgrounds, nobody can say Disney World is for kids. Harvard could abandon General Education and the Core Curriculum if it decided to send every student to Orlando to study for one year...
Even so, official court notices posted last week proclaimed the execution of "counterrevolutionary elements" in Hangchow, and the campaign continues against associates of the Gang of Four. Nor has there been any softening of the regime's insistence that the U.S. abandon Taiwan (the issue is low on the Carter Administration's agenda while Congress considers the Panama Canal treaties and prepares for SALT). But U.S. diplomats took it as no more than a standard repetition of China's policy when Chairman Hua last week told the congress that the army "must make all the preparations necessary...