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...tell him that he planned to withdraw. The two talked for about four minutes. Said Carter: "I think we both waged good campaigns." Then Kennedy climbed up two flights of stairs to a Waldorf press room to read his withdrawal statement to some 100 reporters. "I'm a realist," he said. "And I know what this result means. The effort on the nomination is over...
Today the most powerful state weapon against the dissident painter who cannot or will not join the Union of Soviet Artists-a closed Socialist Realist shop-is the law on tuneyadstvo (parasitism). An unemployed artist (and all nonunion members are, by definition, unemployed) can be punished with one to two years of prison. Apart from this, the "unofficial" artist must deal with a hundred resistances unknown to his Western counterpart...
...short story writers to emerge since Stalin's death, Vasili Aksyonov, 47, continues to display the greatest virtuosity. Although he has written enormously popular stories in a realist vein, Aksyonov has gone on to explore a variety of modes and permutations of language, entering the 1980s as the Soviet Union's only truly modern prose writer. His evolution is instructive. Aksyonov's first fiction dealt with a previously unheard-of theme: the real life of Soviet teenagers...
Nixon as Machiavellian realist also pulls the strings in Spiro Agnew's account of how he was forced out of the vice presidency: Go Quietly . . . or else (Morrow; 288 pages; $10.95). Agnew says he would never have given up the post if his boss had supported him. But when word leaked that Agnew was under investigation for accepting kickbacks even while in the White House, the President dexterously arranged to jettison him. His Chief of Staff, General Alexander Haig, finally warned that if Agnew did not step down, things could "get nasty and dirty...
Shah considers himself, first and foremost, a realist. He argues that advanced Western nations grant liberties which would threaten the stability of an impoverished Third World country like Nepal. With an annual income of $110 per capita and a literacy rate of 18 per cent, Nepal is undergoing development at an unprecedented, albeit glacial rate. The mountainous terrain--Nepal, home of Mounts Everest and Annapurna, is flanked entirely by the Himalayas--provides for poor communications, medical services and transportation of the agricultural goods produced by 90 per cent of the workforce. Shah denies that the mere infusion...