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...sometimes think my success was due almost entirely to the misfortunes of my elderly colleagues." No more. Indeed, the "siraordinario maèstro Indiano-inglese," as an Italian critic called him in July, served notice last week that he had finished "thinking about" his career and would now embark on a decade of "fulfillment." It promises to be some decade...
...well. Similarly, the U.S. has helped mold the Chinese attitude by positioning the Seventh Fleet off China's shores, financing the soldiers on Taiwan, and struggling to maintain military footholds on the fringes of China, in what Senator Morse calls "as futile an effort as this country will ever embark upon...
When Yugoslavia decided to embark on its own road to socialism, it also decided to chuck doctrinaire economic rules and let its economy operate more or less according to the principles of free enterprise. Yugoslav businessmen, though still subject to more controls than in the West, are therefore unique in the Communist world in their respect for the profit motive, the laws of supply and demand and the necessity of competition. One of the most remarkable of the capitalistic comrades who are putting the dynamics of the free market to work under Communism is a former partisan fighter and devoted...
...that they may marry and "lead a moral life together." But Pierre secretly befriends Cybele, a twelve-year-old girl who has been abandoned by her parents to a local convent. Pretending to be her father, Pierre takes her out to the woods each Sunday, and the pair embark on a beautiful (but perhaps dangerous) fantasy romance...
...atheism is to succeed, warned Commission Chairman Leonid Ilyichev, non-believers must embark on a person-to-person campaign - "more heart-to-heart talks, frank explanations and patient conversations." He suggested the formation of Young Atheist clubs, whose members could enter into anti-religious dialogues with believers, such as warning pregnant women about the physical dangers involved in baptism and circumcision...