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...current ferment is reminiscent of the early 1960s, when Soviet Leader Nikita Khrushchev allowed the publication of Alexander Solzhenitsyn's One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich, the first detailed description of life in ! the Soviet Gulag. That thaw gradually congealed after Khrushchev's ouster. It remains to be seen how long Gorbachev will leave Soviet culture open to the winds of free inquiry...
...Columbia University Law Professor Louis Henkin. "Mr. Meese is trying to change the system % accepted by the American people." But times change, counters Eastland, and so does the court majority. "We're in a constitutional era where decision after decision is very close. It is a period of considerable ferment." Ferment indeed. "Mr. Meese must sit up nights thinking 'I haven't provoked the legal profession in recent weeks,' " says University of Michigan Law Professor Yale Kamisar. If that were his only motive, the Attorney General should be able to sleep easier for a while...
...South Africa's apartheid system of racial segregation -- and to three centuries of white rule. Though outlawed since 1960, the A.N.C. has emerged during the unrest of the past two years as the focal point of political allegiance in the seething black townships, the source of growing guerrilla ferment and, paradoxically, a possible key to an eventual solution of the South African dilemma. In Nelson Mandela and four other A.N.C. leaders who have spent the past 24 years in prison for their campaign against apartheid, the organization holds claim to a virtual pantheon of martyrs whose resistance appears more heroic...
Astute museumgoers will supply the missing history for themselves. And perhaps on their own they will also draw the tempting parallels between Vienna's fin-de-siecle and today's end-of-the-century ferment. Sometimes the connections are plain: a brooding eroticism pervaded Viennese art, and today in Manhattan, a well-attended theater piece called Vienna: Lusthaus is heavy with that musky retro scent of doom and libido. The handsome stripped classicism of Loos and Wagner has clear echoes in the architecture of Michael Graves, Andres Duany and Mark Mack. Today as then, the hip bourgeoisie is overeager...
Given that yawning gap between haves and have-nots, political ferment was inevitable. The U.S., which provided $54 million in aid to Haiti in 1985, warned Duvalier that future payments would be jeopardized unless he improved the country's human rights record...