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...Years of Ordeal, 1850-1859 brilliantly combines biography with intellectual history. The essential facts are presented, but not a day-by-day chronicle of trivialities. Those who want to know how many logs the author piled in a fireplace during a given night will have to look elsewhere. Readers curious about how Dostoevsky translated experience into ideas and then into art can wel come Frank as an indispensable guide...
Meantime, the U.S. still finds itself in the curious position of backing Namibian independence while refusing to condemn South Africa's Angolan incursions. One compelling reason for that refusal: as a charter member of the contact group that hopes to mediate a settlement of the issue, the U.S. cannot afford to choose sides. In deed, American and Angolan officials have already made plans to resume the bi lateral discussions they began last year...
Next week Tribe will file a petition before the U.S. Supreme Court asking for a review of the Moon case. At first glance it might seem curious that a lawyer who sees himself as a champion of the poor should be coming to the defense of the powerful evangelist, who will have to serve 18 months in prison unless his conviction is overturned. Tribe has agreed to take the Moon case because he sees a basic constitutional issue at stake. The religious leader, he argues, was unfairly prosecuted for financial practices that are common among some larger, established churches; moreover...
Questions have been raised about the authenticity of Heymann's original material. For example, Hutton's third husband, Cary Grant, does not remember that the hazy millionaire ever kept a diary. Los Angeles Interior Designer Robert Crowder, a Hutton intimate in her last years, finds it curious that she never mentioned Heymann's interviews. The author's defense: a photo copy of a letter from Hutton referring to meetings between them...
April 2--Returning from spring break, students find work has begun outside the Science Center on the Large "suspended mist" fountain planned earlier in the fall. Workers dig out a large circle and start laying plumbing, while curious passers by block entrance to the Science Center. Meanwhile, the Radcliffe Office of the Arts has anticipated the interest in "community art" in distributing grant money, a large chunk of which has gone to Christo, the avant-garde artist, to visit Harvard and wrap the Science Center...