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TIME'S excellent article on Nicholas Nickleby [Oct. 5] only begins to describe the perfection of the Royal Shakespeare Company's ambitious endeavor. The richness of the production is unforgettable and beyond price. Perhaps the most exhilarating moment of the entire day came at the curtain call, when an obviously overjoyed company appeared to be dumbstruck by the deafening cheers from the standing audience...
...interchange than he can see. American architectural ideas, and fantasies about Yankee technology, were distilled and elaborated in Europe, where they contributed to a messianic style. It came back across the Atlantic in the '30s and '40s, and then was academized. Without doubt, the reign of the curtain wall and the spread of a debased sort of rubber-stamp corporate modernism were helped by the factors Wolfe lists: fashion, snobbery, herd instinct and the colonial cringe. Mainly, the glass box won because it was cheap to build. But it just might be that the American patrons of mainstream...
Project Pearl, meanwhile, already has inspired calls from potential donors willing to finance massive new Bible-smuggling ventures to China or behind the Iron Curtain. -By Russ Hoyle. Reported by Bing W. Wong/Hong Kong
Last spring, when the curtain officially closed on the Indoor Athletic Building (IAB) as the home of Harvard basketball, there was a ceremony to commemorate the decrepit old place, and maybe even a few tears shed by some faithful alumni. Yet despite the considerable histrionics, everyone conceded that the IAB had outlived its usefulness...
...general doubts that we need the new MX missile system. He would exploit cruise missiles and hurry research to put future nuclear weapons on submarines. He would put no more American muscle into NATO, believing that if the Soviets decide to attack nations on the fringes of the Iron Curtain there is no way we can win. Our strategy must be to prevent such a move by raising the costs to their interests around the globe. Taylor argues that we need to take a closer look at the Kremlin's strengths and weaknesses. Can the Soviets go on enlarging...