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...tribute to his effectiveness in doing that, several freelance artists, who have produced 47 TIME cover illustrations, collaborated on a portrait of Hoglund that was presented to him at last week's seminar. Each artist interpreted a section of a photograph by William Coupon, who took the picture on this page. Clockwise, from the section of the original photograph in the upper right of the image, the artists are: Allen Hirsch, Mirko Ilic, Paul Davis, Seymour Chwast and Robert Giusti...
...would probably stop a door rather well, but it would be unfortunate if its length deters possible readers. Individual chapters can be read profitably, and the non-technical readers may wish to skip the chapters covering Sakharov's work in physics, though they do make fascinating reading for their portrait of the Soviet world of science, the scientific culture of publishing, seminars, classes, and "chalk talks...
...senior writer Lance Morrow and Jerusalem bureau reporter Jamil Hamad avoided the politicians who regularly define the Palestinian cause. "Rhetoric in the Middle East has an elaborate life of its own," explains Morrow. "It tends to obscure the truth." Instead of gathering familiar slogans, the two constructed their group portrait from the personal tales of a wide array of ordinary Palestinians. Says Hamad: "We decided to let readers judge for themselves the fears and dreams that filled our notebooks...
...Their thorough reporting produces a portrait of a leader who "was changing in front of the nation's eyes" as he confronted the hugeness of the task facing his crumbling empire. Shortly after taking power, Doder and Branson report, Gorbachev embraced an aide's suggestion that he study Dale Carnegie's How to Win Friends and Influence People; as a result, his public style was transformed. He abandoned the cant of Marxism and brusquely told opponents...
Each of the three operas, brilliantly staged by German director and designer Achim Freyer, offers a penetrating portrait of a man whose life changed the ways in which humanity looks at the world: Einstein, the scientist and amateur musician; Gandhi, the inspirational political leader (Satyagraha was the term for his nonviolent resistance movement); and Akhnaten, the putatively monotheistic Pharaoh. Each work is linked musically as well, with motifs from Einstein popping up in the later operas...