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...ritual as regular as the seasons. On one day every spring and autumn, railway stations across the Soviet Union are festooned with patriotic banners, bands blare stirring martial rhythms, and local dignitaries make speeches praising soldierly virtues. Then, as crowds of tearful friends and relatives wave farewell, anxious young men climb aboard the waiting train: they are the current crop of 18-year-old Soviet draftees?about 1 million a year?heading off to begin their military service. After basic training and indoctrination at the camps, invariably hundreds of miles from their birthplaces, they will take a solemn oath...
...party's Central Committee has issued a series of belated reforms designed to add some free-market elements to Viet Nam's stifled economy. According to the new directives, announced last autumn, anyone who can set up a profitable enterprise should be allowed to do so, peasants should not be forced into collectives and initiative should be rewarded even on state cooperatives and in factories...
...point is not that Picasso, as an art student in Barcelona and, after the autumn of 1900, a young artist in Paris, was markedly better at imitating Steinlen or Toulouse-Lautrec than other Spanish artists were, but that he could run through the influences so quickly, with such nimble digestion. What he needed, he kept. He had no use for the tendril-like, decorative line of Spanish art nouveau, for instance, but he retained its liking for large, silhouetted masses, and they, grafted onto the pervasive influence of Toulouse-Lautrec, keep appearing in his Parisian cabaret scenes of 1901. Some...
...reporter as she sits down at a large kitchen table. "Trash gets taken out twice a week." Jackets off, white nonregulation T shirts and bright suspenders prominently displayed, 15 to 20 male cadets lounge in a colonel's big staff house. Across the way in Eisenhower Hall the autumn cadet hop is about to get under way. Spirits are very dampened by the afternoon's 55-0 football game, the latest in a string of defeats for the once proud Army team. Why are these cadets not sharing the misery at the dance? "What...
Usually, the green innocence of spring gives it a preliminary shape. The lazy days of summer mold it. Finally, crisp autumn eves decide it. "It," of course, is the pennant race...