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Myriad evils--officers bent on promotion, industrialists bent on profit, generals bent on status, and politicians bent on re-election--all do their part to plague the American military. Fallows contends. He lays the bulk of the blame for weakness, though, on two phenomena: The Pentagon's affection for unbelievably expensive and ludicrously ineffective high-tech weaponry, and the manpower problems that have developed since the draft was halted...
...enhanced, however slightly, by President Leonid Brezhnev, when he passed up a chance to escalate the war of words in a speech last week to the summer session of the Supreme Soviet. He mentioned the U.S. only once, charging that it was evading talks on arms limitation and was bent instead on "an arms race unprecedented in scale." Under the circumstances, that was mild rhetoric...
...blue felt bowler like the one he is sporting in front of the studiously garish former Huntington Hartford Gallery of Modern Art on Manhattan's Columbus Circle. The Wolfe in chic clothing, having savaged much of the modern art world in The Painted Word (1975), unleashes his hell-bent prose on the architectural profession this fall in From Bauhaus to Our House (Farrar, Straus & Giroux; $10.95). At Hartford's old gallery he got an edifying uplift from an edifice he admires. The building's designer, Edward Durell Stone, fares well by the writer's architext...
...Stalin's time, certainly, poetry had the power to arouse the wrath of a dictator bent on destroying his country's intellectual and spiritual resources. At the same time, poetry had the power to console Stalin's victims, as has been amply documented in the writings of survivors of Stalin's gigantic Gulag of prisons, camps and places of exile. A compelling example is Eugenia Ginzburg's description of solitary confinement in a maximum-security prison in Yaroslavl. A former schoolteacher and an ardent Communist, Ginzburg was arrested in 1937, like millions of other innocent...
...that a student organization submit a membership list of at least ten names to be kept on permanent file in University Hall. Because no student wanted his name in official hands, GSA seemed fated never to gain official recognition. At last, after several pleas from gay students, a dean bent the rules and agreed to sanction the group if the students just waved a list of names in front of him for a moment...