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...documents dealing with the Stalin era, the other to re-evaluate the history of the Communist Party. It was essential, said Gorbachev, to face up to the "painful matters in our history." Two days later a panel of Soviet historians met with journalists to discuss his call for a franker look at the past. While it was clear that the party would continue to set the ground rules for historical research, the scholars agreed that the veil was being lifted on many subjects. One member of the panel even called for a reconsideration of the 1968 Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia...
...coax it toward easing the strictures of apartheid. While making it clear that U.S. policy was not going to change, Washington officials publicly warned that last week's show of force "cannot help prospects for a dialogue, which the government itself has said it wants." Privately, officials were even franker about their disappointment. "We are obviously extremely unhappy over the violence and detentions," said a senior State Department official, "and we have said...
...Brassó (the origin of his pseudonym), in what is now Rumania, he went to Paris in 1924 to sculpt and write, then turned to photography to illustrate his articles. In 1933 his first major collection of seamy scenes, Paris de Nuit, was a sensation; a larger, franker version published in 1976, The Secret Paris of the 30's, was a U.S. bestseller. Brassaï's multiple talents included friendship, and in his volumes of portraits there are reminiscences of Bonnard, Giacometti, Henry Miller, Samuel Beckett and, especially, Picasso...
...there were things not talked about, either in our late night bull sessions in the dorm smokers, or at the much franker evenings at The Crimson. We never mentioned homosexuality. The tragedy of this ignorance was brought home to me when a good friend committed sulcide on her discovery that her boy friend was a homosexual. Sex was private, surreptitious with complex arrangements, at least from a girl's point of view. Even when we knew a sexual relation existed, we did not talk about it. The complexity gave many Radcliffe girls an easy excuse to postpone such activities, with...
...believe they have done anything wrong, sometimes insisting that they are not batterers at all. Those who own up to being violent frequently believe their wives are at fault. Nick, 33, an unemployed New Yorker who chose a six-week counseling program over 90 days in jail, is franker than most. "Most of the time I thought I was right. It [the violence] was called for." If they stay in a treatment program, and very few do without a court order, some men reach a kind of self-awareness that results in a more pacific nature. In a spouse-abuse...