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...refusal to face life but from the refusal of American critics to accept the personal diversity of writers. American society, though by no means always moral, is overwhelmingly moralistic; at different times, under certain conditions, some Americans will do anything to establish their favorite slogans. Writers who do not proclaim or support values are dismissed as godless or decadent--annoying labels, however, writers who do take strong moral stands often feel that they have been tricked into doing so, that they will now be dismissed either for impractical idealism or for boring preachiness. White's sensitive health and unaggressive integrity...
...Michael S. Dukakis will officially proclaim March 18 the state-wide Harvard and Radcliffe Arts Day tomorrow...
Dukakis this week will also proclaim 1984 the year of secretaries and commemorate the 20th anniversary of a Boston ballet company...
Donning Levi's and a college T shirt emblazoned STANFORD is not an act of political rebellion but of status seeking. For Soviet youngsters, Western products proclaim to their friends, "I can get what I want." A scarf with a designer signature adds a dash of color to what can be a gray existence. Nor are Soviet officials immune to the temptations; it is often their children who are first to sport the latest Western clothes, courtesy of a trip abroad or a state store reserved for the elite. "What cannot help alarming us," Chernenko said last year...
...moral action. What he intended to show was a fundamental relationship between peace and the hearts of men and women, the crucial relevance of the turnings of the will and spirit. Seeing the largest possible meanings in the most intimate places of the soul, John Paul wanted to proclaim that great issues are determined, or at least informed, by the elemental impulses of the human breast-hatred or love. Wrote the Milan-based Catholic daily Avvenire last week: "In the midst of so many voices raised to ask for negotiations between the superpowers on the basis of pure equ ililibrium...