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...policy, the University community has supplied the material for most of the issue. Theoretically, this material, coming as it does from such a fertile intellectual source, should contain the fresh viewpoints of active researchers or policymakers. But for Harvard East Asian scholars travel to the Chinese mainland remains a forbidden luxury. Perhaps the staleness of the Review's issue on China comes primarily from the second-hand quality of most of its articles...
...could read their writers and journalists, their translations of your writers. Today it's better. We can get your novels, and even some Western newspapers and magazines if we really want to. But we still have a long way to go. We want most what is forbidden--like abstract art. Our music is the freest. The politicians can't understand it, so they don't try to control it. But our architecture--terrible. You've seen the University in Moscow? The Church of Socialism, we call it. And these new apartment buildings? Paper boxes. It's good that people...
...been putting an economic squeeze on Communist Cuba with what amounts to an unofficial trade embargo. Free world nations are urged not to do business with Castro, and all vessels in Cuban trade are blacklisted from picking up U.S. Government-financed cargo. So far, 196 vessels are on the forbidden list; free world trade has skidded from $1.3 billion in 1959 to less than $300 million last year, leaving Castro almost totally dependent on his Iron Curtain friends. But last week Great Britain knocked a hole in the embargo big enough to drive a bus through...
...working conditions are esthetically punishing. Because sound-track music must be written to fit snatches of action that are timed to the second, it rarely makes sound musical sense-and heard apart from the film, it seldom makes sense at all. Except for a few haunting cases such as Forbidden Games, Black Orpheus, Limelight, movie scores are usually forgotten together with their movies, despite the recent proliferation of sound-track...
Athenagoras must often maintain polite diplomatic silence in the face of open hostility from Turkish Moslems. Orthodox clergy, except for the Patriarch himself, are forbidden to wear clerical garb in public. Last week Istanbul papers bitterly attacked Athenagoras for not condemning the Greek Cypriots...