Word: closers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...dust is still settling from the explosion of the SALT talks in Moscow (see THE WORLD), but Carter is extraordinarily confident. "I have no reason to wish we had done anything differently," he says. "I have no second thoughts at all. There is a much closer relationship between me and [Soviet Party Chief Leonid] Brezhnev-and between [Secretary of State Cyrus] Vance and [Soviet Ambassador Anatoli] Dobrynin-than anyone knows about." He says that "encouraging" communications on the subject are taking place between Moscow and Washington on a regular basis...
...York Attorney General Louis Lefkowitz is investigating. Last week the Wall Street Journal splashed the story of her business affairs on Page One, reporting that Holzer talked friends into putting about $10 million into foreign ventures, many of which are hard to track down. (Holzer says the total is closer to $2.5 million...
...Harvard and Radcliffe sailing teams split tacks over the weekend, with the men following the wind for a victory in New Haven as the women ran into rough seas closer to home...
...moment of some importance, for it signals an official thaw in Soviet attitudes to the cultural avant-garde of the past. Before Lenin died and the hand of Stalin squashed experimental art like a bug, the link between "revolutionary" art and revolutionary politics in Russia was closer than it has ever been in the West. The idealist abstract order of works like Lissitzky's Proun, 1919, was deeply connected to social visions of Utopia: when Tallin designed his extraordinary spiral tower as a monument of the revolulion, there was no doubt in his mind thai the appropriate language...
Those who learned Rilke from earlier translations may miss some cherished lines or bridle at Poulin's occasional use of contemporary vocabulary. Yet a comparison between his version and one of the best previous translations suggests that Poulin's is closer to current taste. In their 1939 rendering of the Duino Elegies, J.B. Leishman and Stephen Spender wrote...