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Like most other artistically inclined young men of the time, Rorem felt the call of postwar Europe. An ardent Francophile, he became an American in Paris par excellence, finding still headier mentors in the likes of Jean Cocteau, Nadia Boulanger, Francis Poulenc and Marie-Laure de Noailles, the legendary patroness of the avant-garde.Rorem never misses the opportunity to tell us whom he slept with -- and whom he didn't. (Cocteau belongs in the small, latter category...
Born in Worcester, Mass., Hoffman studied psychology at Brandeis University in the placid 1950s, then went on to graduate work in the headier atmosphere of the University of California, Berkeley. By the mid-1960s, after a stint as a traveling pharmaceutical salesman, he was living among the hippies in New York City and devoting himself to opposing the Viet Nam War. "Personally I always held my flower in a clenched fist," he once wrote...
...heavily on what is meant by "work." If the meaning is Reagan's original vision of a defense that would banish the terror of nuclear war forever, by making the U.S. invulnerable to assault, then Star Wars almost certainly cannot work. Former Secretary of Defense James Schlesinger characterizes the headier versions of a Star Wars plan as "half Buck Rogers, half P.T. Barnum," and even the most ardent proponents generally con- cede that no technology now known or foreseeable could be guaranteed to destroy every warhead the Soviets could launch. Some percentage would always get through, causing death and devastation...
This year China's leaders set out to stamp out the more than 50 small underground journals that had blossomed during the movement's headier days. Though the journals were crudely mimeographed publications with readerships of at most a few hundred each, they were formally banned by the Party Central Committee in February. "The conservatives in the military and in the security apparatus just couldn't stand the underground papers," says one diplomat who is based in Peking. "They were determined to eradicate the dissident movement once and for all and, in this, they have been pretty...
Cocaine is the caviar of drugs, except that it is 70 times as costly as the finest beluga. While an eclectic consumer might feel that caviar and a bottle of Bellinger brut give a headier, cheaper and wholly licit lift to an evening, many American hedonists get more of a kick* through the nose...