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Goldman also emphasizes cycles. A collegiate atmosphere is something "like the fashion industry," he says. "Skirts can go up only too high and can only go so low. It's got to be between those poles. That fact accounts for the similarities between today and those years." The intervening period...
By the same selective memory, veterans dwell on spontaneous displays of mercy in combat rather than on acts of brutality. Although no one wants to be reminded that both sides occasionally shot prisoners, usually because they lacked the time or means to guard them, one notorious exception is the 12th...
Beauty and Free Speech. It is a time-honored way to run a local political campaign: paste pictures of your candidate on anything that does not move. But in 1979, when a group called Taxpayers for Vincent stapled City Council Candidate Roland Vincent's posters on utility poles, Los...
Nor will the superb runners and swimmers from East Germany, one of the world's top three athletic powers, judged by medals won in past Olympics. Nor any athletes from Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, Laos, Mongolia or Viet Nam. Almost certainly, the Poles and Hungarians will stay home, though nothing is official...
Warsaw riot squads had moved quickly to prevent major demonstrations from taking place in the capital and cordoned the Old Town, a traditional rallying point for Solidarity supporters. As churchgoers streamed out of St. John's Cathedral after a morning Mass in honor of workers, someone in the crowd...