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Despite the potential explosiveness of the situation, four years of negotiations over disputed border territories have produced no results. Meanwhile, the Russians seem to be pinning their hopes on what Soviet commentators refer to as "healthy forces" in China, meaning a moderate pro-Soviet clique that could take power after Mao has gone. That is at best a long-range hope. For Mao, however, there are more immediate advantages to be gained from the conflict. He has often used the threat of a foreign enemy to rally support for his own policies while isolating his domestic opposition. Though no Confucianist...
...early Disney would have been lost. When fine-art quotes appear in Disney's films, they are either apocalyptic and expressionist or else genteel: little in between. Their storehouse is, of course, Fantasia (1940). The cold crags and demon-infested clouds of the Night on Bald Mountain sequence refer straight back to the hellscapes of late-medieval religious art. Like many another image in Fantasia, it is also filtered through Art Deco, the popular style of the '30s. Using Deco idioms was as far as Disney ever went in the direction of classicism, but it would be shaky...
...years ahead, Kaunda will face another kind of internal challenge: finding ways of transferring power to the younger, better educated men now entering Zambian politics. They openly resent the old-guard politicians for their corruption, incompetence and perks of power, which the younger men refer to as the "three Ms" - mansions, Mercedes-Benzes and mistresses. But for the moment, Kaunda is indisputably the national hero, and his re-election is assured. His most impressive triumph will presumably come late next year - perhaps on Oct. 24, the tenth anniversary of his country's independence - when he stands at the throttle...
PEOPLE OF the University--I use this phrase to refer to all educational workers, from the President of this University to the most humble companero...
Hank Greenspan is a research assistant at the Graduate School of Education and a freelance writer. the facts from the Highest-up. I refer, of course, to what has become known as the "Fig Leaf" episode. Would you please tell us what you know of that...