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AFTER being interviewed by TIME'S Ruth Mehrtens Galvin, the late author John P. Marquand likened her probing technique to psychoanalysis. The comparison was twice apt. Galvin strives to get behind her subject's façade, and she has long been interested in the behavioral sciences. These qualities made her an obvious choice for a principal role in establishing our Behavior section three years ago. As our national Behavior correspondent, she has contributed to most of the major stories the section has run. Virginia Adams was also a charter member of the department, first as its researcher...
...move. Human figures are either distant specks or huge, sculptural presences-bronze father figures on plinths, reclining "classical" marbles or faceless wooden dummies. But this world has none of the solidity of Renaissance townscape. Instead, it is enigmatic and spectral; the perspectives tilt irrationally and contradict one another, the façades are cardboard, the inhabitants ghosts. "These characters in costume who gesticulate under a 'real' sky, in the middle of 'real' nature, have always given me the impression of something as stupid as it is fake," De Chirico wrote later. He was speaking of theater...
This syncretistic religion has grown out of Brazil's ethnic mixture and unusual degree of miscegenation. Though the indigenous Indians and imported African slaves took on a Christian faç.ade to please the Portuguese colonists, they never really gave up their own religions, and the church, from the beginning, had to accommodate them. Today, many Brazilians practice two religions at once, going to Sunday Mass, then returning to the same church on Monday's "night of the souls" to burn candles invoking their favorite spirits...
...some remarkable "economic carols." Jangled Dems, to the tune of Jingle Bells, starts off: "Democrats, Democrats, Why are you so blue? Nixon stole our policy, What ever shall we do-o?" Then there is Goodbye Gold (to the tune of Deck the Halls): "Flood the world with paper dollars, Fa la la la la, la la la la; Pay no mind to Frenchmen's hollers, Fa la la la la, la la la la." Other titles: God Rest Ye, Jackson Grayson and Should Milton Friedman Be Forgot...
...decided to try to flee China. He raced to a military airfield near Peking with his wife, his son and two key coconspirators: Mao's chief ideologue, personal secretary and ghostwriter, Chen Pota. who was purged from his fourth-ranking spot in the Politburo last fall, and Wu Fa-hsien, boss of the Chinese air force. The would-be defectors took off in a Trident equipped with a special radar designed to permit flights at very low altitudes. Wherever they were headed, they never made it. Lin's own daughter. Lin Toutou, betrayed the escape attempt...