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I was in Santiago for a scientific meeting at the University in the Spring of 1971. At that time friends took me to meet President Allende. I said to him "You are a physician." "Yes,"--he replied. "Like Juan Negrin." I said--speaking of the ill-fated President of the...
Meanwhile, observers were still trying to piece together the events that led up to the abortive right-wing coup. The attempt was so inept that some people in Lisbon speculated that the left may have deliberately stirred up violence in hopes of provoking a premature right-wing effort to seize...
The myth and the reality take on many forms. The classic case--fated to frustration, needless to say--is the lovesick student who hopes that his heart can flame forth anew after the fire of a once-torrid affair has been snuffed out in the frigid winter. As women fill...
All during this time - ten years -there was a slow gathering of opinion that Rauschenberg's art was on the decline. Like Willem de Kooning, he be came one of those major figures whose last show is always fated to be thought his worst. The reason was that no...
In focusing on men and larger societal needs, Gilder ignores the rising cry of women for self-fulfillment outside the home. He pads the book with trivial anecdotes, like his chapter on the unfeeling treatment of two lonely Harvard professors at a Los Angeles massage parlor. In his insistence that...