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In some senses, The Oriental Renaissance betrays its own antiquity. Schwab's sprawling intertextual odyssey aims at an epic global vision reconciling East and West. He confesses, quoting Walt Whitman's "A Passage to India": "And I myself did not anticipate... that I would discover Whitman's line 'Thou roundness...
It was 8 a.m. in Moscow last Monday and Yelena, a student in a technical school, had just turned on her television set expecting to watch her favorite exercise program. Instead, a news show on world events was on the air. Any place else, the change in programming would not...
When Reagan was handed a note at about 10 a.m. Monday saying that Gorbachev had been confirmed as General Secretary, he knew more about this Soviet leader than he had about Andropov or Chernenko. He had been told that Gorbachev is a 9-to-9, six-day-a-week worker...
The distinction is important. Capitalism--in the sense of big corporations, organized labor and rapid movement of money--is unlikely to come to China in the foreseeable future. Yet one of the great maxims of classical Marxism, that market forces are somehow the source of wickedness, has been discarded. Last...
"The University doesn't give bands a lot of encouragement. They will help classical musicians out a lot more than rock or jazz," Peasley said.