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...adds a facet to one's view of Piranesi's most famous suite, the Carceri d'Invenzione or "Imaginary Prisons," which he engraved in 1745. They are among the most potent dream images ever evoked. To call them precursors of Surrealism is to diminish their oneiric power, for their directness as statements about hallucination has not been equaled this century...
Addressing another U.S. social problem almost as widely debated, the U.S. Surgeon General last week defended a report issued earlier this year calling for a reduction of violence on television. Appearing before the Senate Subcommittee on Communications, Dr. Jesse L. Steinfeld asked for "appropriate and immediate action" to diminish violence on television because of its possible effects on children. While Steinfeld's appeal did not constitute an official threat, touchy network heads were quick to react. Said ABC President Elton Rule: "Even greater emphasis is being placed on presenting children's programs which resolve conflict situations through...
...occupied territory. Washington worried that both sides would like the U.S. to act as middleman, and is wary; mediation would not only infuriate other Arabs, but could also complicate U.S. relations with Israel. The U.S. will instead try to persuade both sides to keep working bilaterally, once Arab outbursts diminish, toward what Eban last week described as the "progress in stages" that might be a more likely outcome of Hussein's proposal than any "dramatic jump to a full peace settlement...
...local taxes. Even so, Sweden's leading business magazine, Veckans Affärer, has warned that if taxes continue to rise at the present rate, the government by 1980 will be taking 55% of the G.N.P. and will dangerously squeeze industrial expansion. This could crimp economic growth and diminish tax revenues, along with many of the public services that they provide...
...spent countless hours haggling out responses to the government's repeated attempts to force testimony from him. The resultant mental duress has no doubt affected Popkin's work as a professor and a scholar, and the delays the government investigation has caused him in completing a book could diminish his chances for tenure...