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MARRIED. Christina Onassis, 33, daughter of the late Greek shipping magnate Aristotle Onassis, over whose empire she now presides; and Thierry Roussel, 31, French businessman and heir to a pharmaceutical fortune; she for the fourth time, he for the first; in Paris...
...department is a Marxist citadel. Karl Marx is but one of eight theorists, for example, whom sophomores read in their tutorial. Concentrators also pore over the pages of Adam Smith and John Stuart Mill, pillars of the political and economic tradition to which the Republican Club is the delinquent heir. Why, each year department chairman David Landes gives a lecture in which he lambastes Marx as a historian and economist, echoing Raymond Aron's exact words that "Marxism is the opiate of intellectuals." So much for the nursery of radicalism...
...this without receiving a degree in psychoanalysis, but he had graduated from a training institute, and delivered several papers at conventions. He became the heir-apparent to the director-ship of the Freud Archives, even gained permission to go through a cupboard of previously unrevealed Freud letters. At the Archives, Masson unearthed what he believed was significant new documentation that Freud abandoned his seduction theory for intellectually dishonest reasons. Masson delivered a speech on his beliefs, and like a prodigal son was tossed out of the Archives and Eissler's life for attacking the master...
...then the Presidency, Gary Hart must infuse his Kenedyesqsue rhetoric with Rooseveltian innovation. He must stop talking about a "new generation of leadership," and start explaining what bold, new, creative solutions he can offer. As Ronald Reagan is the philosophical descendant of Barry Goldwater, Gary Hart can be the heir of Camelot. Hart has cast himself as a progressive liberal; now he must offer--as Goldwater called it in 1964--"a choice, and not an echo...
...have been given the additional responsibility of helping to make party personnel decisions. When John Chrystal, an Iowa businessman, was received at the Kremlin in November, it was Gorbachev who passed along a message from the ailing Soviet leader. Had Andropov lived longer, Gorbachev might have been groomed as heir, but his relative youth could keep him from assuming power this time around...