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WHEN he succeeded the late Gamal Abdel Nasser last October, he was greeted with a cascade of tasteless jokes. "We're suffering two plagues at one time. First Nasser dies. Then we get Sadat." Haughty survivors of the ancient régime ridiculed him for his dusky skin (from his Sudanese mother) and because he had come from an impoverished delta village that is so remote, the nearest bus route is a mile away. Politicians dismissed him as a light-weight whose chief talent was sheer survival. When he delivered his first May Day speech in the steelmaking city of Helwan...
Once he had money and independence, Voltaire settled down to a cautious but often brilliantly effective guerrilla war against France's ancien régime. He was, Besterman suggests, the first man to recognize and mobilize that new creature, public opinion...
...ancien régime felt a special kinship with the stylized artifice of Chinese design. Chinese porcelain was admired for its curvilinear grace, and mantelpieces and niches were filled with delicious Meissen and Chantilly imitations of Chinese styles. One of the most striking objects in the Wickes collection is the great black Chinese chest that London craftsmen lovingly set on legs of gilded wood. When the stateliness of the baroque era gave way to the studied insouciance of the court of Louis XV, chests took on a kind of portly gentility, as witness the gilt-trimmed rococo commode in Wickes...
Most Yugoslavs can travel freely to Western nations; President Tito himself has severely handcuffed the once-dread ed secret-police apparatus; and the re gime is openly encouraging a measure of economic and local political compe tition. But there are still some limits to liberalization, as Writer Mihajlo Mihajlov discovered last week. A Yugo slav court sentenced Mihajlov to ten months in jail for writing uncompli mentary things about the way Tito runs his country...
...been called an "imperialist" and "the defender of the ancien régime." He has been accused of "whitewashing McCarthy" and "throttling civil liberties." A John Bircher? An editor of the National Review? Not at all. He is John P. Roche (as in coach), national chairman of Americans for Democratic Action...