Word: centrally
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...REFUSAL of Admiral Stansfield Turner, the director of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), to heed Harvard's guidelines about the agency's activities on campus is worth serious attention. Catcalls of 'academic freedom' and 'government spying': reflex reactions for many members of the academic community: are not sufficient responses...
What may influence the voters' judgment is Tory criticism that the Trudeau years failed to resolve the alienation of the newly resource-rich Western Canadian provinces, which feel that their growing economic clout is not matched by commensurate political influence in the central government. The Westerners served for decades as a captive market for high-priced manufactured goods from Eastern Canada. Now that they have come into their own, oil-producing Alberta and Saskatchewan are resentful that the Trudeau government has claimed a slice of their petroleum revenues to subsidize the price of imported oil, on which most...
...could hardly assert that his stewardship has brought Canadians prosperity and tranquillity, he chose to launch a broadside offensive. He portrayed the country as imperiled by "a growing spirit of egotism and selfishness" and declared in Montreal: "It's impossible to have a united Canada without a strong central government." Dismissing Clark as a "feeble echo" of provincial Premiers who are hungry to expand their powers at Ottawa's expense, Trudeau cast himself as the champion of a government strong enough to defend the national interest from the provinces or anywhere else. Said he, by way of illustration...
...startling to see how fast and with what authority the Guitar's lessons were absorbed by other artists in Paris, such as Henri Laurens and Archipenko. Laurens's Dish with Grapes (1916-18), with its majestic rotation of painted wood planes around the calm central core of the stemmed fruit dish, is surely one of the masterpieces of the 20th century, and all the fresher for being little known. Jacques Lipchitz's flat, frontal cubist sculptures, like Detachable Figure, Seated Musician (1915), are perhaps less impressive than this; yet they have about them a gaiety and precision...
...central figure of The Hadrian Ransom (Putnam; 275 pages; $9.95) wins this year's award for Most Unusual Kidnapee: Pope Hadrian IX. The holy heist in Allan Duane's psychological thriller has been planned by three disgruntled Americans and Rosella Asti, daughter of Italy's Ambassador to Washington. While the whole civilized world weeps and prays, the intricately plotted caper goes as smoothly as a sacrament-until the Red Brigades horn in on the action and the $4 million ransom money. The hero in the end is il Papa, a man of great energy, guile and charity...