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...think of it as a compromise to write music that means something to the player and listener," says Zwilich, who lives in New York City. Indeed, although she studied at the Juilliard School with Elliott Carter and the late Roger Sessions, both masters of almost gnomic complexity, Zwilich writes in a disarmingly open style. On the page her music looks as clear as Brahms'; to the ear it sounds as bold and vigorous as Shostakovich's or Prokofiev's. But it always remains her own. Says she: "The more I am true to myself, the more accessible I seem...
...months later the Soviets invaded Afghanistan. An angry Sunday-school teacher is dangerous. Carter thrashed about in his despair, pulling the U.S. out of the Moscow Olympics, embargoing the sale of American grain to the Soviets, and losing the nation's confidence in his Vienna nuclear arms deal. It died in Congress...
...this Vladivostok agreement that Jimmy Carter wanted to push aside in 1977 in his evangelic zeal to substitute deep cuts in missiles and warheads. But surprises are not welcome in the programmed society of the U.S.S.R. Brezhnev, sicker than ever, angrily turned down the idea. It took Carter two years more to get back to Ford's agreement. Before he rushed off to tell the world of his SALT II achievement in Vienna's Hofburg Palace, he kissed Brezhnev on both cheeks, the way they do down in Georgia--Soviet Georgia--a kiss seen round the world...
...chilly tone. The Soviets, he said, "reserve unto themselves the right to commit any crime, to lie, to cheat" in pursuit of world domination. Only three months later, the President adopted a pragmatic course that belied his hostile words: he lifted the ineffective grain embargo that Jimmy Carter had imposed on Soviet trade after the 1979 invasion of Afghanistan. Ever since, the Administration's policy toward the Soviet Union has had a typically Reaganesque twist: harsh ideological rhetoric tempered by moves rooted in an emerging realism. The inconsistency has caused relations between the two superpowers to blow hot and cold...
...would dismantle its existing SS-20 missiles aimed at European targets. The offer was rejected, but talks on limiting such intermediate nuclear forces (INF) began the same month in Geneva. That December the Soviet-dominated government of Poland cracked down forcefully on growing unrest. Reagan reacted as impractically as Carter had, ordering U.S. companies to stop helping the Soviets build a natural-gas pipeline to Western Europe and later asking European allies to join the boycott by renouncing a raft of potentially profitable deals. They refused...