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There is, after all, a place where American women might escape the oncoming tyranny of midi fashions, though it seems an extreme solution. Despite the normally puritanical attitude of most Communist regimes, East Germany's state fashion institute has pronounced its anathema on the midi. "Such creations do not agree with our active style of life," said a spokesman for the Deutsches Mode-Institut, which dictates styles to East German couturiers. "The main characteristics of our fashion are: young, optimistic and purposeful...
Future Like the Past. After 30 years of studying war and its causes, Gaston Bouthoul, director of Paris' Institut Francais de Polémologie (from the Greek polemos or war, and logos, study), confesses that he is no nearer an understanding of it than when he began. What he sees in the future is a repetition of the past. Bouthoul foresees war over Siberia, for example, as China increasingly competes with Russia for one of the world's last unexploited land masses; or in the mystifying "encirclement psychosis," as he calls it, manifested by the world...
...adulatory biographer like Theodore Besterman is just the further aggravation that a resenter of Voltaire's cocksure reformism does not need. Mercilessly detailed, Besterman's book is a scholarly but unabashed case of hero-worship by the English founder and director of the Institut et Musée Voltaire in Geneva and editor of the 107 volumes of Voltaire's Correspondence. Besterman's zeal can nearly do the impossible: make his scintillating subject dull. Yet Voltaire survives even his sedulous admiration-perhaps because no age can help finding a man fascinating who himself was so fascinated...
...students" occupied the Germanic Seminar of the Free University of Berlin. I saw and smelled, all too vividly, the results of this liberation. (There had not been the slightest provocation on the part of the professors in the department: quite the contrary.) The liberators renamed the building "Rosa Luxemburg Institut"--an insult to the memory of a noble and cultivated woman. The behavior of the German SDS resembles far more that of Herr Wessel's famous namesake Horst than of Rosa Luxemburg. Henry C. Hatfield '33 Professor of German
...disease have always been fellow travelers. U.S. troops in Viet Nam are fighting malaria as well as the human enemy. But now, according to a report jointly issued by the U.S. Army Medical Research Team in Viet Nam and the Institut Pasteur of Saigon, another killer is mounting a virulent attack. Bubonic plague, the Black Death that slaughtered a third of Western Europe during the 14th century, has suddenly started claiming casualties by the thousands. In 1961, only eight cases were reported in South Viet Nam. Last year some 4,500 cases were recognized, and there were upwards...