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...Kennedy picked him as the first painter to receive the Medal of Freedom, the country's highest civilian award. Wyeth is also popular with Middle Americans, partly because of his meticulous realism. But the somber, empty America that he depicts is a long way removed from the Chamber of Commerce optimism that is often (and mistakenly) assumed to be the sum total of Middle America's taste. Wyeth's America is often locked in a wintry cold, but even in summer the sun seldom shines full strength on the lonely fishermen, hired men and country women...
...unemployed with annual handouts of $20 million from the Turkish government. Even more serious, however, is the fact that the communities are drawing farther apart in a process described as "creeping partition"-and the renewed terrorism may accelerate the process. Says Rauf Denktash, president of the Turkish Cypriot Communal Chamber: "Cypriots of my generation at least knew each other. A new generation is growing up in different school systems, without any friends on the other side...
...Nantucket Chamber of Commerce expects the Island's winter guest houses and one hotel to be filled that weekend, while others may open temporarily. There is no public campground to house extra overnight visitors...
Founder Mauro Tappella, 26, a student at the University of Rome, says that his movement, now perhaps 2,000 strong, is building a new "European soul." Apparently it can already muster surprising political strength. In a matter of hours, it persuaded 74 members of the 630-seat Chamber of Deputies to demand official efforts to free the jailed TSUM leafleteers. So far, Moscow has not obliged. The students, who stand to be charged with "hooliganism," face up to five years in jail...
...Joseph Stalin loathed every note of it. He and the Communist Party denounced Shostakovich for his bourgeois musical tastes and, ever since, the composer has been sliding in and out of party favor. Too talented and far too famous to be squelched, he produced symphonies, ballets, choruses, chamber music. He alternately soothed the ultraconservative ears of the commissars with "music for the people" or outraged them by straying into atonality...