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...dreaded invaders. Then the people fled, some never to return. Now, almost 2,500 years later, archaeologists have recovered what may well be long-lost samples of that buried treasure: two remarkably beautiful and well-preserved statues of a young man (kouros in ancient Greek) and a maiden (kore), at least one of which is almost certainly a missing masterwork of the well-known 6th century B.C. sculptor Aristion...
...Arthur Okun, "but we think we can handle that." One reason for his optimism is that for all its high price tag, the $29 billion-a-year Viet Nam war absorbs only 3% of the total national output of goods and services-only half the proportion consumed by the Kore an War. The total defense budget today accounts for only 9% of gross national product, compared with 41% at the height of World War II and 13% at the Korean peak. More important, the end of the Korean fighting caught Washington with a huge oversupply of military goods...
...Restraints. In pirating the Pueblo, Kim knew that discomfiting the U.S. would also undercut South Kore an President Park-and thought that the risk was worth it. Risks are, of course, a relative matter. A hypermil-itant, fanatical minipower such as North Korea does not feel the restraints that are imposed upon the Soviet Union or the U.S. It has no interest in maintaining the tradition of freedom of the seas for its own minuscule coastal navy, nor does it carry the burden of an atomic arsenal. Past masters of propaganda, the North Koreans can be expected to wring...
...Moreau by Tamayo looks like a rather sour Kore in the Acropolis Museum in Athens. Or perhaps Mr. Tamayo was influenced by the Kouros in the Metropolitan Museum of Art? Either way, let's leave the Greeks alone. Moreau, as your writer says, is all woman, every woman...
Happy Burial. The Kore and other archaic statues were preserved by a happy chance of Greek history. In 480 B.C., invading Persians broke up the Acropolis statuary. But the Persians were defeated and turned back in Themistocles' great naval victory of Salamis. Returning, the Greeks piously buried the fragments of the sacred statuary on the Acropolis itself...