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...anticipation reveal more of ourselves than of the Soviets. For nearly half a century, the West has been a people of gate watchers in regard to the Soviet Union. Once more we address our questions to the gatekeeper: Does his relative youth signal flexibility or merely a longer reign of adamancy? Does his background in agriculture suggest less emphasis on the military? Is this changing of the guard merely plus ca change? No one on the other side answers, of course, so the questions bounce back to us who pose them, rattling around in their own echoes while we stand...
...will Gorbachev cope with this dilemma? During his speech to the Central Committee last week, he referred to "speeding up the country's social and economic development," a strategy that he associated with the name of Yuri Andropov. The allusion was revealing. During Andropov's 15-month reign, the former KGB chief launched a campaign against worker absenteeism and nomenklatura corruption. At least one prominent black marketeer, with connections to the family of the late Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev, was executed. Andropov fired several industrial ministers and began to appoint younger, more professional executives to senior posts. Andropov also...
...described A Private Function as "the fulfillment of his long-held desire to write about a chiropodist and (Director Malcolm) Mowbray's wish to direct a film about a pig." In fact, they have larger issues to lance. Although the film is set during Clement Attlee's Labor reign, it applies just as ferociously to Margaret Thatcher's pinchpenny Britain. With its double-edged title and its tone of bitter whimsy, A Private Function asks to be taken as a hymn to the meanness of the human spirit, in ) which the one decent soul is "a pathetic cringing nancy...
...Canterbury Cathedral, the first to preach in a Lutheran church, and the first in a millennium to attend the Eucharist in Istanbul alongside Orthodoxy's Ecumenical Patriarch. But despite these gestures of friendship, substantive progress toward Christian unity has nearly come to a halt during John Paul II's reign. Last week a front-page editorial in the Vatican daily, L'Osservatore Romano, seemed to signal that there is no prospect of structural reunion of the churches so long as this Pope's views prevail...
MODERN DANCE companies are interesting because they need not stick to any formal rules or balletic norms; they have free reign with creativity. Sometimes this freedom simply leads to failure in overly amorphous, experimental works. The Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, one of the country's leading modern dance companies, reaches modern dance companies, reaches the ultimate balance between these two extremes of stifling fidelity to convention and unrestrained experimentation. Their pieces reflect an incredible combination of ballet structures and modern dance innovation, exhilaration and subdued strength. Wednesday night's performance displayed all the finest aspect of this unique ensemble...