Word: beate
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...stories. After Yale ('66) and three years with the Army in Asia, he was a Moscow correspondent in the early 1970s for United Press International, and later for TIME. Before taking over the White House assignment last February, he had been TIME'S State Department correspondent, a beat that involved travel to four continents with Henry Kissinger and Cyrus Vance. But last week's events constituted, he said, "the most fascinating few days I've spent as a journalist...
...months California Governor Jerry Brown has been promising that he would announce his presidential candidacy in the spring or early summer. He was eager to avoid the problems caused by his late start in 1976, when he beat Jimmy Carter in five of six primaries but had no real chance at the nomination...
Bach: Six Sonatas for Clavier and Violin (Violinist Henryk Szeryng, Harpsichordist Helmut Walcha, Philips; 2 LPs). Several virtuosos have recorded these crystallizations of the baroque sonata style (Oistrakh, Menuhin, Laredo), but none can beat the suave brilliance of this set. Szeryng plays with an impassioned aristocrat's clarity, grace and brio. Walcha, a virtuoso in his own right, is appropriately brought to the fore by Philips' bright tonal presence...
Repression and prudishness have long been a sad fact of Russian life. Long before the Communists, songs and folklore told of heroines suffering at the hands of men, and mothers have traditionally told their daughters, "If he doesn't beat you, he doesn't love you." Indeed, says Stern, sadomasochism and drink often rule the male-female relationship. He writes: "Violence, alcoholism, and sex form an explosive cocktail, making the line between 'normal life' and criminal pathology extremely fine...
...novelty of going to the moon, and of space exploration in general, wore off quickly, in part because the government's commitment to those programs came out of political and military expediency ("Beat the Commies"), rather than any scientific motivation. In aligning itself in the public eye with Johnson and Nixon, the Pentagon, and other symbols of conservatism, NASA unintentionally hurried its own decline. For these "friends" of the space program aided it only when such help was good policy...