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...Hurry. But when it came to unification of Germany, Bulganin was surprisingly blunt. Russia was frankly in no hurry. Bulganin protested that "the Soviet government now, as in the past, favors the unification of Germany." but instantly added that "the remilitarization of Western Germany and her integration into military groupings of the Western powers is the main obstacle at the present time to the unification of Germany." They could "exchange views" about the problem, he said relaxedly, "even though in present circumstances we may fail to reach immediate agreement ... In that case, the problem should be solved step by step...
...convention of his colleagues, Clarence Schoenfeld, a public-relations man for the University of Wisconsin, issued a blunt warning: "I have the uneasy feeling that so-called 'public relations' practices are muzzling and muffling our colleges. We have set out with great zeal to make friends and influence the public, and in so doing we have not only persuaded our professors to be more discreet, we have drugged these same professors into absolute silence . . . It may be quite true that our universities are quiet today because they have been intimidated . . . It is my personal conviction, however, that...
...South America in modern times. Guayasamin, 35, once studied with Mexico's late master of mordantly bitter painting, José Clemente Orozco. He has a similar social consciousness, amounting to aching rage at man's inhumanities, and a similar range of techniques, from abstraction to hammer-blunt realism...
...these poems, Honig most often adopts a position of removal from the subject he is treating, so that even his description of a very personal incident in "Do You Love Me?" combines dispassion with its emotional impact: ". . . Her dying sigh denies/The quiet settling idly on/His polished shoe. One blunt toe/Gleams back a flawless eye at him/As he dangles from the sigh." The poet reports single acts or aspects of the circus: the morality or the moral are implicit in the way he sees them and transmits them to the reader. And it is at this point that Honig the poet...
...roughhewn, still bear the sculptor's chisel marks. And they remain emphatically stonelike, with a sense of the prehistory mystery which man has long attributed to curiously shaped boulders and strange stone outcroppings. This gives an awesome touch to Wotruba's figures, as effective in their blunt massiveness as the matchstick-thin figures of France's Alberto Giacometti...