Word: formalities
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Soviets have shared their knowledge about long-term spaceflight, mostly through informal contacts rather than formal publication. Says one NASA specialist: "We have a book summarizing these lessons. We've got their diets. We try to make our people very aware of what the Soviets have done, because our own experience is all short duration and our data base is very...
...question has been raised whether Markham's memoir could have been her own work, given her lack of formal schooling. Biographer Lovell's convincing answer is yes. The scholar and legendary white hunter Denys Finch Hatton, Blixen's great love and one of Beryl's many, had helped Markham make up much of the education she had missed. Though her good friend, the aviator and author Antoine de Saint-Exupery, strongly influenced her writing, chronology shows that the work could not have been his. Her third husband, a failed writer named Raoul Schumacher, did some useful editing, but despite embittered...
...produce the most ravishing episodes of detail, as in the folds and loopings of the monks' white habits in The Virgin of Mercy. It is one of the things that commends Zurbaran to modernist taste. But to Velasquez's circle it cannot have looked very sophisticated. For all his formal solidity, moreover, the perimeter of Zurbaran's space often seems as thin as tissue, ready to collapse under the pressure of revelation -- and sometimes it literally does, as when the back wall of the otherwise "normal" domestic scene of The Virgin and Christ in the House of Nazareth dissolves...
Unfortunately, Israeli Prime Minister Shamir doesn't understand this. His political opponent, Foreign Minister Shimon Peres, does, as he made clear last week at the Kennedy School. He has received assurances that the Soviet Union will play no formal role at the bargaining table and that Israel can leave the conference at any time. The U.S. has promised to support Israel by joining it in walking away from the table if the Soviet Union tries to exert its influence toward a solution Israel does not like...
...students, Leverett residents Elisa Fernandez '88 and Andrea N. Shlipak '88, divided 10 weeks' time among formal leadership classes, the Outward Bound program and self-designed internships...