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...characterizing Solzhenitsyn's views as perhaps "too" harsh and "too" chilling, TIME [Feb. 18] ironically illustrates what Solzhenitsyn is ultimately talking about: the West's continued reluctance to face the facts, whether out of "spiritual impotence" or in the name of so-called intellectual detachment. How much more evidence do we need before admitting what the Communists are after? Those of us who grew up in one dictatorship can easily detect the evils of another...
...meeting, Polaroid had been one of the great success stories of corporate America. Founder and boss for 43 years, Harvard Dropout Edwin Land is an inventive genius ranking not far behind Thomas Edison. He personally holds 524 U.S. patents. Starting with the development of Polaroid filters to stop the harsh reflection of automobile headlights, Land moved on to nonglare Polaroid sunglasses and World War II antiaircraft goggles...
...charts ever since. Simon & Schuster, which has printed 600,000 copies, believes that the book will eventually outsell even Co-Author Woodward's Watergate works, The Final Days and All the President's Men. But if The Brethren is doing surprisingly well, it is also getting harsh judgments from its most critical readers, legal experts and other well-informed court observers...
...developing countries tend to shun loans from the IMF because of the stringent repayment and budget-cutting conditions that come along with the money. Nor does the fund seem prepared to ease back on its tough lending conditions. Says one official flatly: "IMF loans are usually harsh but essential to get a country that borrows them out of the economic mess that it is in. While I think that there will be tremendous pressure on the fund to ease off a bit, doing so would clearly be wrong...
...egregious, however, as the excessive length of this production. Sellar's Lear runs more than four hours. It tests our endurance with strange visual effects that add little to an understanding of the play. The notorious storm of Act III wails for an hour amidst pendulous light bulbs, harsh spotlights, rolling rocks, flickering candles, blinking headlights of a sleek Lincoln Continental, and the disturbing whine of steel cellos. Yet Sellars wants more. On comes a snake of worklights, four television sets and two Polaroid cameras with flash bulbs. Sellars uses every corner of the stage, from the turrets...