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Danger for Some. Most of the Western visitors wasted little time talking politics with their relatives. With more than two years of separation behind them, they dwelt on family matters, cooed over Tante Emma's new baby, or drank a belated brandy to Opa's memory. Only after the initial thrill of renewal ties was there time for furtive whispers about the future. Could the Communists really close the Wall again Jan. 5-the deadline-now that both East and West Berliners had tasted a mo ment of freedom? It was bound to erode Communism's barrier...
Yalemen, like most collegians, have long dwelt in the shadow of the gargoyle. Gothic architecture, with its encrusted spires and ogives, was the accepted way of making scholarship look more scholarly. But no longer. In the past few years more advanced architecture has risen on Yale's 150 acres in New Haven, Conn., than in all of Manhattan with all its forest of new buildings. Some of the Yale structures are ordinary, but the boldest buildings have succeeded in giving modern architecture a host of new directions...
...treaty with an address that was an excellent initial attempt to define the scope and significance of the treaty. When he wrote to the Senate a few days later, transmitting the treaty for ratification, he abbreviated sharply most of the issues he had presented to the people and dwelt upon weapon development and strategy. He might have preferred to do otherwise, but if the treaty was to be approved, he had to speak to the question the Senate was asking...
...differences between the summer Harvard and the winter Harvard must be mentioned, but they should not be dwelt upon. The Charles River, for example. At all other times of the year it is a delight to the contemplative soul, but in the summer it becomes a poignant object lesson in the evils of locating large factories near bodies of water. The Yard, for another example. In the winter it annually gives birth to a new generation of Harvard Men. In the summer, to the horror of old Harvardians, it quarters hundreds of girls who blithely desecrate the Hallowed Ground. Lamont...
Each has made great strides on his own since then; Frager won the Leventritt and Queen Elisabeth competitions; Ashkenazy tied for first in Russia's Tchaikovsky contest. But their letters have dwelt on one remaining ambition: a two-piano recital. This spring Frager went to Russia for a concert tour, and last week the long-planned duet with Ashkenazy finally took place...