Word: arthur
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...Beirut to Ethiopia, it is a wonder that he is able to distinguish the names of towns from Prime Ministers. Less a wonder is that these people sometimes grow hard around the heart; when you've seen one mutilation, you've seen them all. Still, as Arthur Koestler wrote of the war in Spain: "Anyone who has lived through the hell of Madrid with his eyes, his heart, his stomach, and then pretends to be objective, is a liar...
AFTER WATCHING the first scene of the Harvard-Radcliffe Summer Theatre's production of Arthur Schnitzler's La Ronde, the audience realizes that the material is not appropriate for young children of people easily embarrassed by explicit dramatizations of sex. However for others, director Bill Rauch's creative adaptation of this collage of 10 one-act dialogues is a superbly orchestrated version of the delicate material...
...Soviet television since former President Richard Nixon addressed the Soviet nation in 1974. It was a small victory for the Reagan Administration, which has become increasingly upset about the access that Soviet officials have to U.S. television. Last month, after Pravda rejected an article by U.S. Ambassador to Moscow Arthur Hartman, the State Department decided to apply direct pressure by denying the Soviet Central Committee's U.S. expert, Georgi Arbatov, permission to speak to the American press during a visit to the U.S. Said a senior State Department official after the Panorama show: "It's not the millennium...
Historian Arthur Schlesinger Jr. at San Diego State University: "We cannot acquiesce in the drift toward Armageddon. For the stake is supreme: it is the fate of humanity itself. Let me say at once that the answer to the arms race is not unilateral nuclear disarmament. The renunciation of nuclear weapons by the West would place the democratic world at the mercy of Soviet Communism. History has proven beyond all argument that mercy is not a salient characteristic of any Communist regime. Neither the arms race nor unilateral disarmament holds out hope. What we must do rather is to revive...
...author tips his hat to Sir Arthur early on. The name of his medieval detective, William of Baskerville, is an echo of the Sherlock Holmes story The Hound of the Baskervilles. In the 14th century context, William is a Franciscan friar, famed for his formidable powers of deduction. His companion and disciple is called Adso, or in French, Adson, as in the phrase "Elementary, my dear Adson...