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...University's first and only studio professor of Visual and Environmental Studies, Brooklyn bred Dimitri Hadzi enjoys the unique position of Harvard's permanent artist in residence. He is a sculptor of world acclaim represented in the permanent collections of such museums at New York's Museum of Modern Art. Guggenheim and Whitney and the Hirschorn museum in Washington. Run your hand over his 64 inch bronze. "Thebes III" currently on exhibit at the Carpenter Center, and it feels alive, in an age dominated by steel fabricated sculpture. Hadzi is a determined texturalist, sculpting pieces which have a natural quality...
...curtain goes up, the theme from Dimitri Tiomkin's score for the movie Giant fills the theater, grand, swelling, as spacious as Texas. The irony is quickly apparent: the several women and one man who spend their time in the five and ten in McCarthy, Texas, are spiritual midgets, made small by life and their own tediously limited ambitions. But there is a double irony, invisible perhaps to those onstage: Playwright Ed Graczyk and Director Robert Altaian can also be counted among the Lilliputians, and it would take the talents of a logician to determine who should...
...result is not just what Yugoslavia's Communist-turned-critic, Milovan Djilas, denounced 24 years ago as a "new class"; it is a new aristocracy. Among its most visible and prestigious members are the military. According to Johns Hopkins University Kremlinologist Dimitri Simes, "The Soviet military elite has become a privileged and self-perpetuating caste. As just one indication, 70% of the Odessa High Artillery Military School graduates a few years ago were sons of active duty officers...
Although Moscow's latest peace overtures were obviously self-serving, experts from a wide variety of backgrounds also saw a sincere desire for some arms control behind the latest Soviet peace moves. According to Dimitri Simes, a Soviet emigre and scholar at Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies, Moscow seriously wants negotiations but expects little progress as long as the Americans refuse to revive the overall SALT negotiations...
...Some effects may be undesirable. The boycott may help create even more of a cold war climate in the U.S.S.R.; Soviet leaders may exploit the atmosphere, as they have in the past, conjuring up socialist fervor to counter the threat from the West. It is also possible, predicts Dimitri Simes, an analyst at Georgetown University's Center for Strategic and International Studies, that the Kremlin will use alienation from the West to justify greater repression and internal control...