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...there any hint about Brezhnev's eventual successor. The cult of personality that surrounds the ailing leader may have reached its apogee at the congress. But his iron grip on the helm may doom the Kremlin to a nasty power struggle after his passing. "They are postponing the day of succession to the point that it will now be a blowup, rather than a gradual shift," predicts William Hyland of Georgetown's Center for Strategic and International Studies...
When lies come true, there are not too many places where one can get a grip on life. The idea of time in black writing, for example, of time as an index of progress, or as a context of history, has either no meaning or a dangerous one (Ralph Ellison's 1952 novel, Invisible Man, struggles to escape from time...
...ability to achieve results in just about everything. One problem is the persistent appearance of disunity at the top, brought about most recently by Deng's unceremonious dumping of Hua Guofeng as party chairman in late December. Deng sought to allay rumors that China was in the grip of a new power struggle by telling a group of Japanese visitors last week that "our situation is the most stable it has been since the 1960s...
Thus, in death as in life, Kosygin had been eclipsed by Brezhnev. Still, until he fell ill last year and was replaced as Premier by Nikolai Tikhonov two months ago, he had maintained an iron grip over the vast state bureaucracy that he commanded. World leaders had learned not to judge Kosygin by appearances. In spite of his characteristically hangdog expression, he had been capable of driving as hard a bargain as any Soviet leader since Joseph Stalin. Equally tough and tenacious in the Kremlin corridors of power, Kosygin was unsurpassed in his ability to sidestep the purges that...
Grove's new chief is Stanley Sadie, 50, a specialist in 18th century music, author of books on Mozart and Handel, editor of Musical Times and critic for the Times of London. Sadie appears to have a firm grip on two vital facts: that culturally as well as commercially this is an age of internationalism, and that the rapid growth of music can no longer be interpreted by one person. Grove 6 acknowledges this with a systems approach that employs computers, a team of advisers and editors and an army of 2,300 contributors (20% of them British...