Word: maximalism
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...unexpected." The critic was Count Leo Tolstoy, and these and other remarks appear in two volumes of Tolstoy's Letters (Scribners; $35), the first comprehensive translation into English of the Russian writer's prolific correspondence. In notes to friends and fellow authors like I.S. Turgenev, Maxim Gorky, H.G. Wells and Rainer Maria Rilke, Tolstoy also takes a hard look at his own work. War and Peace, he concedes, is in some parts "long-winded and inaccurate...
...Yves St. Laurent but the woman who has to create herself and be a unique person." She adds: "I make my clothes for real, living women of our times?not movie stars ?who have to be with children, and men, and go to lunches, receptions, bistros, dinners at Maxim's and business meetings and are always ready to travel." She does not, obviously, intend to dine at Maxim's or board the Concorde bare-bosomed, but those far-out styles are doubtless intended to emphasize her view that clothes should on occasion be "laconic, humorous and seductive." They...
...this war while admitting that "people don't even want to hear about it." Happily, he does not take the next step and insist that people damn well ought to hear about it for their own good. Nor does he justify his work by parading Santayana's maxim about the uses of history; instead, he deflates it: "Those who remember the past are condemned to repeat it too." He preaches no sermons, draws no morals, enters no ideological disputes. He simply suggests that some stories must be told-not because they will delight and instruct but because they...
...terrorist is another man's freedom fighter," goes the old political maxim, which is one reason why terrorists are so hard to identify. Nonetheless, an expert in the subject, New York City Police Department Terrorism Specialist Captain Frank Bolz, estimates that there are 140 clearly defined terrorist organizations active in the world today. Some, like West Germany's Red Army Faction or Italy's Red Brigades, nihilistically seek to destroy the societies that shelter them, and give little coherent thought to ultimate goals. Others, like the Sandinista guerrillas of Nicaragua or the Islamic Marxists of Iran, have...
...such should happen, it will be for a very short period. I think that [our] security measures are adequate. But it is an old Roman-law maxim that the security of the state is the highest law. The state is entitled to take exceptional measures to preserve its own security in exceptional circumstances. I think that anybody who says my country is not under exceptional circumstances must have his head examined. We have no option; I must keep this country safe. If [the blacks] were not stimulated from the outside, then I think they would change their minds. I sincerely...