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DIED. Louis Aragon, 85, engaged and engaging rebel, homme des lettres and uncrowned laureate of French Communism; in Paris. A Dadaist and co-founder in 1919 of surrealism, Aragon was a decorated hero of two World Wars, revered especially for the ringing patriotism of his 1940s Resistance poems. Slim and...
President Reagan's nationally televised speech last week was a tour de force. It is difficult to imagine a more effective, persuasive and reassuring presentation of his decision to pack the MX densely into a remote corner of Wyoming. He demonstrated something like perfect pitch in fine-tuning his...
Even though Brazil is in desperate need of American help to repay its $72 billion foreign debt, its leaders have made it clear that they will not fight in the President's rhetorical cold war. One Brazilian business leader, anticipating Reagan's wish to exchange economic aid for support of...
Such signs, which may seem to be no more than rhetorical fluff, should not be underestimated. Kremlinologists say that the Politburo uses Pravda and other papers as a mouthpiece for Soviet policy; the friendly comments put to paper last week represent a positive change--however small--in Soviet foreign policy...
Gullette, forced to create the difficult illusion that he and taped actor O'Neill are the same person, echoes the young man's mannerisms with fairly convincing results. Both of them speak in one of Beckett's crazy derived dialects, a mishmash of cliches and rhetorical fragments, the refuse of...