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...cold war's issues fit together like a child's toy nest of boxes. Berlin, at the center, sits inside the larger German question, which sits inside the European security question, which sits inside the container that might enfold them all-disarmament. For the last month U.S., British and Soviet officials have been struggling with the biggest container of all at the Geneva conference on suspending nuclear tests...
...Kooning, the proconsuls of abstract expressionism, in energetically weaving fat tangles of paint over their yards and yards of canvas. Yet taken for what it was-decoration-the effect was often charming. Such expert practitioners as Theodores Stamos, James Brooks and the late Bradley Walker Tomlin manage to enfold the observer in a dreamlike flux of colors that goes on and on, like a boat ride around a small pond...
...pertaining thereto, to sort of re-true himself up, to recharge the battery. For these big forms have everything. But to express these, you have to love these, to be a part of these in sympathy. One doesn't get very far without this love, this love to enfold too the relatively little things that grow on the mountain's back. Which, if you don't recognize, you don't recognize the mountain...
...Smith Act of 1940 (under which the eleven leaders of the C.P were convicted) makes Communist activities a possible basis for criminal charges, reasoned the court. Therefore, a witness asked to testify about such activities may justifiably enfold himself in the Fifth Amendment, which provides that no one in a criminal case is required to be a witness against himself. As precedent, Justice Black recalled Chief Justice John Marshall's famed ruling in 1807 reaffirming this guarantee of the Fifth Amendment in the Aaron Burr treason trial. From Mr. Burr to Mrs. Blau the constitutional line was clear...
Heading in to town via Tremont street, unlimited vistas of amusement enfold before the evening stroller. The Beacon Hill Theater, for instance, is featuring Sir Codic Hardwicke in Nicholas Nickleby and Deborah Kerr in Black Narcissus, an all-British twin bill. A turn to the left will put you on Washington Street, Boston's Broadway and home of the bigge movies. They include...