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Washington responded by staging the most fervent welcome for a foreign visitor since Nikita Khrushchev came calling in 1959. Showing few signs of his 74 years, Teng rushed through a formidable schedule of official and semiofficial events. He talked for 5½ hours with Carter, dined at the White House, lunched with Senators and U.S. reporters, sampled American culture at the Kennedy Center and barnstormed across the country, getting a firsthand look along the way at American enterprise: a Ford plant near...
...made a detailed statement against viola tions of human rights, as he has done previously. Before the Indian audience in Oaxaca, he uttered a fervent plea for economic justice and redistribution of land. Attacking "the powerful- rich classes who often leave untilled the lands in which lay hidden the bread that many families need,"John Paul cried: "It is not just, it is not human, it is not Chris tian." At Monterrey, he defended laborers' right to organize and protect their economic interests. In an obvious wetbacks who head for the U.S., he stated, "We cannot close our eyes...
...Johnson's most fervent admirer among critics, Paul Goldberger of the New York Times, who called it "the most provocative and daring skyscraper proposed for New York since the Chrysler Building" and "the first major monument of Post-Modernism." Hogwash, retorted another critic, Michael Sorkin, in the Village Voice: A T & T will be "the architecture of appliqué ... the Seagram building with ears...
Christman, research historian at Washington's National Portrait Gallery, has introduced an eclectic choice of portraits, accompanied by masterly biographies in miniature. Here is the fervent "Stonewall" Jackson and the loquacious Henry James; here, too, is Charles Pinckney, the Revolutionary War officer remembered for his "incredibly bad military advice." The works themselves are undistinguished, apart from the self-portraits by Mary Cassatt and Edward Hopper; but these busts, etchings, daguerreotypes, oils and sketches constitute a museum of the human physiognomy-and of our civilization over the past two centuries...
...Shaw calls a "master passion," and his iconoclastic views are contrasted with those of a fossilized former liberal, Roebuck Ramsden (Richard Woods). Grizzard works hard. But he is visibly too old for the part and lacks the psychic energy needed to fuel the evangelist in Shaw's most fervent heroes...