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Perhaps this was all Khrushchev (or Tito) had in mind at this point, knowing the offer would be rejected. But more intriguing was what the proposal indicated about the Tito-Khrushchev relationship. Since the Hungarian revolt, Moscow seems so unsure of how to handle the ferment in its Eastern European empire that it has publicly conceded ex-Foe Tito a hand in the Balkans. But how much of a hand? Proposing a grouping in which Tito would obviously be the biggest frog was calculated to make Tito swell up. But proposing one that did not stand much chance...
...great Russian novels of the 19th century. He was born of Ukrainian Cossack stock into that great shambling mess of splendor and squalor, the Russian Empire. The society must have had something in it of Elizabethan England (with its preoccupation with theology, place and power, and its spiritual ferment). To this was added a fantastic, ramshackle bureaucracy with bewhiskered officials dedicated to the ledgers of obscurantism. Gogol's own parents typified that society. His mother was a pious, eccentric ninny; his father a sometime bureaucrat in the chaotic Russian post office as well as the owner...
...current "counter-rectification" campaign, which has caused a vast wave of discontent among China's intellectuals. Originally it was Mao who promulgated the "let all flowers bloom" thesis; in pushing it so diligently, he was mindful of Budapest and the need for some guarded outlet for intellectual ferment (as shown by his many worried references to Hungary in his secret February speech). But no sooner had the flowers of discontent begun to appear as shoots than they were chopped off by the counter-rectification campaign...
...worse. Admitting that he had turned down Harvard, where his famous grandfather and less famous father, F.D.R. Jr., had nibbled the lotuses of liberal education, he said he intended to enter Yale next month as a freshman, treated reporters to a blast of 18-year-older's ferment: "I'm tired of getting my name in print just because I'm a Roosevelt. When I accomplish something, you can come back. Meantime, sorry...
Because so many jazzmen are seriously studying music these days, Giuffre expects the ferment of experimentation to give off some wonderful new sounds in the next few years. Until a better one comes along, Giuffre's own new sound will...