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...culture of Russia: painting, sculpture, design, film. By 1950, the destruction was done. To this day the most brilliant moment of revolutionary aspiration in the history of Russian art remains not only unofficial but actively repressed within the borders of its own country. Last year the U.S.S.R. sent a mammoth consignment of modernist Russian art to the Pompidou Center's exhibition, "Paris-Moscow, 1900-1930"- while at the same time ensuring, by the threat of cancellation, that no proper discussion of the relations between art and politics in postrevolutionary Russia could be raised in the catalogue. (Needless...
...first petrodollars began to flood in, almost no Arab monetary agencies knew how to protect their new-found riches from the ravages of inflation. Many of the top moneymen had scant training for their high posts. Hence the Arab officials wisely turned to sure things: U.S. Treasury bills and mammoth deposits in the big international American and British banks...
Helen and Teacher is much more than a work of mammoth scholarship, however. In nearly 800 pages, Lash has written a multitutde of books--biographies, histories, stories of stormy romance and deep poverty. It is the tale, first and foremost, of course, of Helen Keller's life, from her first encounters with the woman who shaped her life to her last breath...
...mammoth report on race relations issued this spring brought into the spotlight many of the racial problems that continue to trouble Harvard, though its release during Reading Period prevented much student discussion about it. We hope its findings and recommendations will make their way into University practice, and not yellow in administrative files. Most important, the University cannot remain supine in the face of its vestiges of racism and sexism, and wait until student anger forces...
...April 29 hearing, attorneys for the plaintiff called the law a "mammoth piece of legislation...awesome in its magnitude," and complained that the statute deprived owners of the right to dispose of their property as they wished...