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...preparation, the U.S. State Department expressed "deep concern," pointing out that the accused men were all members of an unofficial group monitoring Soviet observance of the human rights provisions of the 1975 Helsinki accords on European security. Clearly, the Soviets' destruction of the Russian group was calculated to manifest their disdain for the 35-nation conference that will convene in Belgrade on June 15 to assess compliance with the Helsinki agreements...
...history. The isthmus belonged to Colombia until 1903, when the U.S., under Teddy Roosevelt, encouraged a local revolt and sent American warships to block the landing of Colombian troops. Congressional doves objected to the gunboat diplomacy, but they were drowned out by T.R.'s perorations on manifest destiny. With the birth of the U.S.-sponsored Republic of Panama, the witty Secretary of War, Elihu Root, told his President, "You have shown that you were accused of seduction and you have conclusively proved that you were guilty of rape...
...class, their own class: such, in my view, is the inevitability of historical process. And this generally regressive impulse will include a return of young women to the sexual role determined in their middle-class origins, that of woman's emotional submission to men, a submission most readily made manifest in economic abdication...
...Evelyn Hooker reported that three psychiatrists could not distinguish differences among 30 matched pairs of gay and straight men, as manifest in Rorschach tests. Miller and Hannum found no differences in MMPI scores (Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory), between matched groups of heterosexual and homosexuals in a 1963 study. William Horstman found similar lack of difference in MMPI scores nine years later. Mark Freedman reported similar outcomes in lesbian response to the Eysenck Personality Inventory. Using similar personality measures, Siegelman (1972) found no significant differences, and C.G. Watson found no evidence for the paranoia hypothesis in homosexuality. Research by Brenda Dickey...
...height of Degas' sculptural wit is attained in the one statue that he put on exhibit during his lifetime (none were cast in bronze before his death) and the one that still remains his most famous piece of work in the medium. His biting humor becomes manifest in "The Little14-Year-Old Dancer," of which both the finished product and a study in the nude take their places in the exhibit. The nude study highlights the ironic contrast between the elegant, flowing pose the young ballet student has struck (her neck imperiously thrust back and her arms joined together...