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Republican strategists doubt that the President's skyrocketing approval ratings will translate into clout with the Democrat-controlled Congress. Thus Bush will not squander his popularity in bold attacks on the country's myriad domestic problems. Instead, he will submit modest domestic proposals like last week's warmed-over housing and educational "opportunity" initiative, so that, in the words of one White House official, "nobody can say we don't have a domestic agenda." Still, Bush will try not to let the Democrats shift the national focus to social issues...
Mozart has not always been so universally popular. Though he was famous during childhood as a keyboard virtuoso, his myriad compositions were often regarded as dense and difficult ("Too many notes, my dear Mozart," Emperor Joseph II supposedly said). Musicians, however, recognized his greatness. "I love Mozart as the musical Christ," said Tchaikovsky. "The most tremendous genius raised Mozart above all masters," said Wagner, "in all centuries and in all the arts...
...years after the death of Joseph Stalin, Communist Party Secretary Nikita Khrushchev was trying to reform the brutal dictatorship that Stalin created, but each attempt at change triggered new disturbances. Khrushchev stunned the Communist Party Congress that February by his secret speech acknowledging for the first time Stalin's myriad crimes. That speech strengthened anti-Soviet dissidents throughout Eastern Europe...
That is, help him accept that death without the peace of oblivion is China's lot. The manifestations of that horror are myriad, and Zhang, whose 1985 novel Half of Man Is Woman shocked the People's Republic with its explicit -- by Chinese standards -- discussion of sex, details them with bitter black humor. Lined up for execution, the main character sees his condemned colleagues fall dead in a hail of bullets. Only he and a young girl remain alive, spared by blanks and cynical commissars. Nearly dead from starvation, he is hauled into a makeshift morgue and buried...
...logical reaction against the conformist, prosperity-driven, communism-obsessed '50s. The revolt was especially threatening to Middle America because it went beyond politics and challenged the fundamental values of society. And if it ultimately failed to achieve its more grandiose goals, it left its mark in myriad ways, from college ethnic-studies departments to a new role for women. "Maybe the youth rebellion didn't get what it wanted," the narrator asserts. "But perhaps this generation -- and America -- got what it needed." In a program that utilizes music cannily, the song that accompanies the closing credits is a symbolic summing...