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Last week 49-year-old U Nu finally got his resignation accepted. But his destination was not the monastery. Though the coalition won a comfortable majority of 170 out of 250 seats in Burma's Chamber of Deputies in last April's elections, government leaders were disturbed by...
Pavilion with a View. Once at home again, Sesshu turned down the position of court painter to devote the rest of his life to painting in his Cloud Valley retreat and wandering through northern Kyushu, building landscape gardens, writing verse, and painting. When he happened on a particularly striking landscape...
Käthe Kollwitz came of stern stuff and kept as unflinching an eye on life as on death. From her grandfather, a onetime Lutheran minister who founded the first Free Religious Congregation in Germany, she inherited a sense of compassion and a strong personal ethic. From her father, a...
On his way home from the Bermuda Conference in 1953, President Eisenhower delivered before the U.N. a speech that electrified the world. The President pledged the U.S. "to help solve the fearful atomic dilemma-to devote its entire heart and mind to find the way by which the miraculous inventiveness...
Though most do not practice "classical analysis"-because they believe it uneconomic to devote an hour a day three or more days a week for two or more years to a single neurotic patien*-they practice psychotherapy on analytic principles, try to reach something like Freud's goal by...