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...that it took place. Rarely had a U.S. President spent so long a time-a full week-in a foreign land. The visit, moreover, was to a country with which the U.S. did not even have diplomatic relations and which for two decades had been a virtual enemy. That paradox was obscured by the pageantry and (most of the time) by the warm atmosphere. As summits go, the meeting was a glittering technical success, stage-managed with precision...
...increased. If one looks at how little went on in them in those first years compared with now, it is strange to think that the 1930's are sometimes called the golden age of the Houses. There are, it seems to me, three main reasons for this apparent paradox, and a look at them can tell us some important things about the demands of undergraduate life today and the direction in which it may be useful to move in changing or strengthening the Houses and out system of education...
...semi-mobilization, at least to American eyes. Everywhere there are always soldiers: some obviously on duty, their Uzzi sub-machine guns in their hands, very cautious, very intent: but most simply milling in the streets, and always several "tramping" on any given road at any given time. This seeming paradox of soldiers who never seem to be on duty (it is, in fact, a misleading impression), is a fitting metaphor for the compromise which Israel attempts to make between life-styles of war and peace: to live like the city-state of Athens, culturally, economically, open and expanding...
...enormity of killing one's fellow man with premeditation is the principal reason for the existence of the death penalty; it is also the principal argument for abolishing it. The dilemma of deciding which aspect of that paradox should prevail has occupied the minds and emotions of civilized men for centuries. This week it will be the concern of the U.S. Supreme Court as it hears oral arguments on the contention that the death penalty constitutes "cruel and unusual punishment" in violation of the Constitution's Eighth Amendment. The opposing lawyers are again marshaling the extensive arguments that...
California these days harbors a whole generation of stoned, amiable ironists, who work at an angle to the High Seriousness of New York. They needle their audience with the suggestion that art, like experience, is inconsistent stuff, vulnerable and quirky, full of tackiness and paradox. Best known among them is a lanky, mercurial artist named William T. Wiley, 34, who lives and works outside San Francisco in a frame house with (shades of Brautigan!) a trout stream flowing beside it. His traveling show, organized by the University Art Museum in Berkeley, opens this week at the Art Institute of Chicago...