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...Miss Arendt's most frequent observations concerns the basis of disagreement between the free world and the Soviet bloc. Repeatedly she insists that "we should remind our opponents that serious conflicts would not arise out of the disparity of economic systems but only out of the conflict between freedom and tyranny, born out of the triumphant victory of a revolution and the various forms of domination which came in the aftermath of a revolutionary defeat...
...knowledge on the part of admissions officers that "we could be wrong" prevents the admissions process from becoming simply a giant lottery; the letters of reproach remind the College that it is dealing not with lists of activities and ranks-in-class, but with the feelings and futures of individuals...
...only the beginning. On December 17 Khrushchev and other top Party officers met with "representatives of literature and arts" to remind them of the Party's determination to continue to define the tasks and direction of artistic creation." Last week the Kremlin was the scene of another such meeting, and press reports said "Mr. Khrushchev's words were widely regarded as an ultimatum to writers, painters, composers and other artists who had challenged the authority of the Communist Party in cultural affairs...
Before dismissing the whole thing as a sort of Study in Status-Motivated Behavior Within a Peer Group, the reader needs to remind himself that these people are among the greatest names in modern literature (though Ford Madox Ford and Robert McAlmon are no longer big beaks in the literary pecking hierarchy...
...third of all Venezuela's women are married, and another 20% live as concubines. Divorce, once rare in the predominantly Catholic country, has doubled in two decades. In a pastoral letter last fall, Caracas' José Humberto Cardinal Quintero and all Venezuela's bishops tried to remind Venezuelans of the "dignity and obligation of fatherhood." Says Caracas Lawyer Aristides Calvani, a sponsor of child-care legislation: "Many of our people do not get married; their fathers did not, and neither did their grandfathers. It has always been this...