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...There's a general philosophy in Washington," says Bovin. "It's based on fear and ignorance and the most retrograde attitudes, but it's not yet a thought-out system for dealing with the real world. I cling to the hope that the contradictions between the initial philosophy and the still inchoate policy will be resolved positively." Arbatov agrees. He believes the current mood in the U.S. is a backlash against a decade of "disappointment and difficulty" that included Viet Nam, Watergate and the "humiliation" of the hostage crisis. "But I haven't lost all hope...
...long time now, the chief ceremonial function of Memorial Day has been simply to inform Americans that their summer has begun. Of course, residual touches of drum-thumping Americana still cling to the occasion-men in deep middle age parading up and down the holiday, strutting the flag. It is a formal rite of remembering, but remembering at a major distance. In their V.F.W. or American Legion caps the old soldiers have long since made peace with their generation's war. They have worn their memories of combat smooth with the retelling. They have grown easy with what they...
...with Reingold was just like old times. The three collaborated on three covers during Reingold's first stint in Japan. This time Chang spent two days at the Matsushita Co. in Osaka and visited a Honda manufacturing plant in Marysville, Ohio. He was struck by how the Japanese cling to their cultural past. Says Chang: "For all its Western facade, Japan remains essentially Eastern." Iwama, who joined the Tokyo bureau in 1949, interviewed Japanese business executives for this week's story. Says he: "They used to poor-mouth their economy, but after surviving the international turbulence...
...throwing an artistic temper tantrum; as Vreeland would say, literary elegance backed up his refusal. Most producers have preserved the play with an almost awesome regard to the culture and values of the 17th century. Richard Wilbur broke with tradition by translating Tartuffe into English, but many producers still cling to the idea that the rhyming script demands delivery in a dusty package. The Boston Shakespeare Company's production has, in some ways, smothered Tartuffe with theatrical kitsch, motivated, it seems, by concern with maintaining the ill-conceived authenticity...
Except at Easter, when they cling glutinously to countless baskets of green plastic grass, jelly beans have never ranked high in the American sweet-tooth sweepstakes. Now, with Ronald Reagan in the White House, they seem fated to achieve the luster that the praline of sugar and nuts enjoyed in the court of France's Louis XIV.* Jelly bean consumption is jumping, not only in the capital but throughout the rest of the country as well...