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Short of the White House itself, the most prestigious Republican entertaining is to be found in the Georgetown garden or leaf-printed dining room of Senator and Mrs. John Sherman Cooper. In her Paris wardrobe and splendid emeralds, Heiress Lorraine Cooper displays an intuitive flair for the metapolitics of power???as practiced in the Senate chamber, or around the dinner table...
...state-supported child-care centers in order to cut the apron strings that confine mothers to unpaid domestic servitude at home. The most radical feminists want far more. Their eschatological aim is to topple the patriarchal system in which men by birthright control all of society's levers of power???in government, industry, education, science, the arts...
...maintaining primacy over the nation's other bureaucracies, including the trade unions and police as well as the government, is the power of nomenklatura, the hiring and firing of officials outside the party apparatus. Brezhnev would have also had to secure the loyalty of a second source of power???those groups that exercise an informal influence on the Politburo. The most important of these is the coterie of party officials based outside Moscow; they hold a majority on the Central Committee, which formally ratifies Politburo decisions...
...Ardor: A Family Chronicle, Nabokov's latest novel, is already a bestseller. Nabokov's peculiar fascination ?and enduring power???escapes conventional measurement, but by any standard, the range and volume of his work in two languages is prodigious. It includes 15 novels (nine Russian, six English) and translations of other writers' work. His fiction differs from most novels in much the same way that a poem differs from a political treatise. One is an end in itself. The other, however intricate and elegant, is a means to an end. In a classic sneer...
...perspective helps, student violence has been a recurrent problem throughout history. The college years are those of peak physical energy, a search for identity, freedom and power???all reasons to lash out at frustrating restrictions. Medieval students often scorned learning in favor of brawling and thieving; early American collegians were equally unruly. In 1825, the University of Virginia faculty requested police protection against "personal danger" from belligerent students. Professors at other 19th century U.S. campuses were shouted down, pelted with refuse. Not only have students frequently rioted against one another; they have also started quite a few revolutions...