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Mutual Reductions. Many people would like to withdraw U.S. forces from Europe, but Schlesinger agrees with the Administration position that such a move would be disastrous without equivalent pullbacks by Russia. He views NATO as "the spine and adhesive" that holds off Soviet political pressure and the threat of "Fin-landization" of Europe. For three months, the NATO and Warsaw Pact countries have been conducting mutual force reductions talks in Vienna, and the Administration regards keeping American sol diers in Europe as a bargaining chip that will force Soviet concessions. Says Schlesinger: "It would be foolhardy indeed not to give...
...Your article "Andrew Greeley, Inc." [Jan. 7] was a superb analysis of the man who has probably the best mind and the fin est writing talent in the post-Vatican II American Roman Catholic Church...
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...born in France 95 years ago, the daughter of a Parisian banker of Egyptian lineage. Dark-haired and beautiful, she might have grown up in that age of fin de siecle elegance to become one of those delicate butterflies that flutter through the paintings of Renoir. But even as a child Mira Alfassa had had mystical experiences, and the Paris salon she commanded was a circle of devotees of the occult. In 1914 she visited India with her second husband, French Diplomat and Writer Paul Richard. In the French colonial city of Pondichéry, Richard introduced...
...painter and that he thus could work no longer. This Oedipal story (the child castrating the father) crops up often in the legends of genius, but it is possibly true of Picasso; he was almost as remarkable a child prodigy as Mozart. The precocity continued, through his studentship in fin de siecle Barcelona, into the Blue and Rose periods, with their dystrophied and consumptive clowns, absinthe addicts and acrobats. By 1907, Picasso's combativeness and his goading sense (which never entirely left him) of being up against history's wall resulted in the wrench of imagination that provoked...