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Until the Soviets modify their behavior, especially in the Third World, it will be virtually impossible to resurrect détente. In the meantime, one task for America is to correct any dangerous gaps that have developed in the Soviet-American military relationship. Another task is to face the Soviets with political firmness and sophistication. That means eventually resuming carrot-and-stick diplomacy?with an effective stick, to be sure, but also with the restoration of those carrots that the Soviets complain have been thrown away. Only thus can the superpowers reverse the vicious cycle of retribution and recrimination that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The U.S.S.R.: What Ever Happened to Détente? | 6/23/1980 | See Source »

NOTHING THE DECLINE of General Education over the last decade. Dean Rosovsky five years ago designed a ploy to rescue Harvard's sagging prestige--and he succeeded. The Core Curriculum managed to resurrect the Harvard myth throughout higher education, even earning the accolades of a usually skpetical press: "a radical departure from established methods of undergrauate education" (The New York Times); "Not since 1945 had the academic world dared to devise a new formula for developing 'the educated man' " (The Washington Post). Even The New York Daily News was praising the Core as a "refreshing contrast to the sophomoric whims...

Author: By Peter M. Engel, | Title: Remedy for an Ailing Ego | 5/5/1980 | See Source »

...spared in Hans-Jurgen Syberberg's seven-hour misty epic, Our Hitler, least of all the audience. Syberberg seeks to resurrect Hitler and pit him against the world he left behind--a filmic judgment day for Der Fuhrer--and the audience is forced to look into its own eyes. Confusion. No connections. No conclusions. "The results are exhilarating, confounding, and not at all closeended," critic David A. Rosse from the University of California at Berkeley, correctly pointed out. Ultimately, your judgment of Syberberg's Hitler hinges on how you judge your most intimate self...

Author: By David A. Demilo, | Title: Hitler, Here is Your Victory | 4/23/1980 | See Source »

...Librarian of Congress Daniel Boorstin, "will be an example for the rest of the nation." Added University of Pittsburgh Historian Samuel Hays somewhat pessimistically: "It's almost as though you're seeing the death of the manufacturing city right here. And my point is: don't resurrect it. Why try to rebuild something that is gone...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Michigan: Goodbye, Dodge Main | 2/11/1980 | See Source »

McLaughlin will attempt to resurrect his charges this Tuesday in the team's home Ivy opener against Princeton. It's been six weeks since the team last played at the IAB, and the homecoming will not be a day too soon...

Author: By Jeffrey R. Toobin, | Title: Minutemen Post First Win of Season At Expense of Moribund Cagers, 67-44 | 2/4/1980 | See Source »

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