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...plans. At every turn Sakharov describes another setback for perestroika and predicts that without real reform the Soviet Union will descend into anarchy or renewed despotism. He specifically warns against increasing the Soviet government's authority, even if the head of the central government is the architect of perestroika...
Primack's enthusiasm for Scheme Z doesn't just stop with the plan, though, it extends to its MIT-educated architect. "Within the spectrum of highway engineers, Fred Salvucci is one of the most creative and brilliant men in the United Sates," Primack says...
Cambridge architect Hugh Russell, a member of the committee, said he is uncertain whether the group will be able to make the compromises necessary to carry out its mandate. "It's going to be difficult to reach an agreement because people are coming from such different points of view and it's such a large and complicated thing," he observed. "On the other hand, we kind of have...
...side of completion, however, was Gaudi himself, who told his biographer, "All particularly grandiose churches have taken centuries to complete." Devoutly religious, the aged architect begged for alms when contributions dwindled. Gaudi deliberately sketched only an outline of the final facade. Citing St. Peter's in Rome and cathedrals in Cologne and Reims, he said, "Another generation will collaborate, as is always the case with cathedrals that have facades not only by several authors but also in various styles...
Though Gorbachev has proved wondrously skilled at skipping between right and left in the past, it is no longer certain that the architect of perestroika could turn back now if he wanted to. Each step on the road to coercion and dictatorship takes him farther from former allies who might offer him a way back to reform. He might still harbor a vision of a peaceful, democratized Soviet Union. But he has not been able to find either the determination or the right time to bestow true freedom of choice on his country and all its people...