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Lebanon and the Soviet succession have preoccupied us in recent weeks, but the Atlantic Alliance must remain the pivot of American policy. On its unity depends the security of free peoples. From its cohesion will flow whatever hopes the Soviet succession offers for a new dialogue. Unfortunately, just as storms recur in nature, crises recur in the Atlantic Alliance. Nearly every Administration for a generation has been involved in them. However, the present controversies in NATO are both unprecedented and unsettling...
This year there is no underdog--or perhaps there are two, because while B.C. and B.U. battle for control of the ECAC East Division, Northeastern and Harvard pivot around the .500 mark. As a result, the last two ECAC champions (Harvard in 1983, N.U. in 1982) take the ice for the first-round curtain-raiser, not the right's featured attraction...
Across America last week, the nation's farm land had a bizarre new look. In Kansas, large brown patches of stubble-studded earth interrupt shimmering golden carpets of ripening winter wheat. In Nebraska, idle center-pivot sprinklers stand like outsize scarecrows over many once verdant cornfields. In California, more than half of the acreage normally devoted to rice lies uncultivated. The cause of the crop cutback is not drought or disaster but a new federal program that rewards farmers, partly in cash and partly in grain and cotton, for taking large tracts of land out of production. Called payment...
...Evelyn wrote of, "generally well-featured, but excessively libidinous." Even still lifes by artists like Paolo Porpora and Giovanni Battista Recco have the swollen intensity of painting infatuated with the surface of the world. However, Recco's picture of objects on a kitchen table, grouped around the visual pivot of a Delft dish, is so exquisitely designed and so full of severe visual rhymes and harmonies as to rival the best bodegon paintings of Zurbaran...
...facets of the play--the acting the plot and the setting--pivot around a single vision of the stagnancy and decadence of human relationships. It's a heavy responsibility to animate this vision, and it's an even heavier burden for the audience to observe if lot two-and-a half hours in a small basement room at a corner of the labyrinthine passageways below Adams House...