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Auden returned to Christianity and a certain complacence about politics, even though he maintained to his death that "human time is a city/where each inhabitant has/a political duty/nobody else can perform." But in his later work Auden is no longer interested in defining that duty, or even in dramatically exhorting anyone to perform it. He is content to inhabit the realm of "common-sense" and its unrevolutionary complement, "tall stories...
...environment. Instead, the setting seems more suited to Pinter's Birthday Party than a play set in New England in 1974. Without being insistent or exclusive, Horowitz addresses himself to some peculiarly American obsessions and drives in Alfred the Great and it is important that the environment his characters inhabit reflects this...
...Kurds are a fiercely independent people who inhabit the rugged mountains of northern Iraq as well as parts of Turkey, Syria, the Soviet Union and Iran. Many of them have long yearned to have an independent nation, called Kurdistan, and in 1970, after years of bruising clashes with the Iraqi army, they finally won an agreement that guaranteed regional autonomy by March of this year. As the date approached, neither side could agree on what autonomy meant, and when the pact finally came unstuck, a key problem was a familiar Middle East issue: oil. The Kurds took literally violent exception...
...voluntariness and ban physical abuse and "excessive" psychological pressure to modify the behavior of nonvolunteers, then much of the controversy surrounding behavior mod might well dissipate. That would leave more energy for trying to turn promising programs into full-fledged successes. In Denver, for instance, 18 incorrigible delinquents inhabit the CAT house, more formally known as the Colorado Closed Adolescent Treatment Center. The kids run their own modification program, with adult guidance. It has worked astonishingly well inside the institution. But "our biggest problem is getting the kids out of here," says Psychologist Vicki Agee, who is in charge...
...older, more bitter bone of contention is the fate of the Kurds, the nomadic people who inhabit a mountainous region that includes parts of Iran, Iraq, Turkey and Syria. The Kurdish tribes have long sought nationhood but are divided politically between left-and right-wing elements, which are supported respectively by Iraq and Iran-each of which accused the other of trying to subvert its native Kurdish leadership...