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With the exception of Bulgaria, which has strong historic ties to Russia, East bloc attitudes toward the Soviet Union range from distrust to outright loathing, an attitude that stands in sharp contrast to a hunger among East Europeans for most things Western. Through much of the East bloc, youngsters wear blue jeans and dance to Western rock; purple-haired punks are seen in the streets of Warsaw and Budapest. More important, East European governments have turned to the West for the credits and technology that Moscow cannot provide, giving East Europeans a vested interest in the revival of détente...
Randall Jarrell never received the attention given his flamboyantly talented and troubled friends. Robert Lowell's struggles with manic-depression and mental institutions found their way into his later, confessional poetry. John Berryman's alcoholism was legendary while he lived, and his suicide made headlines. In contrast, Jarrell refused to exercise his poetic licenses. He did not drink or philander; his first marriage ended in an amicable divorce after twelve years, and his second lasted until his death...
...Communist antagonist Edgar Snow places it at a million, so a million it is. Seagrave's enemies' enemies are invariably his friends: thus Ching-ling, the family's black sheep, is portrayed as a "transcendent beauty" and the Red Army is found worthy of "authentic heroism." By contrast, "Chiang at his best was pathologically devious...
...Budget Director, whose first child Rachel was born in May, received an offer from the Wall Street firm of Salomon Brothers that was hard to refuse. As one of Salomon's managing directors, Stockman stands to make more than $700,000 a year in salary and bonuses, in contrast with the $75,000 he earns at OMB. When he told Regan about the offer ten days ago, the chief of staff, who made a few dollars on Wall Street himself as chairman of Merrill Lynch & Co., urged him to take...
...deficit by $56 billion in 1986 and $295 billion over three years, but only if the economy realizes some rosy assumptions: a growth rate of 4% over the next 3˝ years, inflation holding at 4% and a steady decline in interest rates to 5.5% from the current 9.5%. By contrast, Stockman pointed out, the consensus forecast of top private analysts is for 2.9% real growth, moderately higher inflation and significantly higher interest rates. If the "nation's 50 leading business forecasters are correct," Stockman dryly concluded in his Stock Exchange speech, the result would not be deficits declining toward...