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...adult." Yet as the admirer acknowledges, that cultivation may have undone Spassky. Despite the Russian's domination of the game for a decade, the Boris of Iceland displayed a literal and philosophical resignation in the face of Fischer's predatory inventions. The result was less drama than ritual: civilization vanquished by barbarism. Or was it decadence defeated by energy? Or was it an unconscious harbinger of detente...
...nations made a ritual promise to promote trade, but no settlement was reached on the basic issue that is holding up progress: the insistence by Senator Henry Jackson and majorities of the Senate and House that Russia liberalize its emigration policies before Congress grants the Kremlin lower tariffs and easier credits. Asked about the emigration issue, which particularly concerns Jews, a Soviet spokesman said: "I could put the question to you, 'Would you agree to making U.S. trade with the U.S.S.R. dependent upon the solution of the racial problem...
Dozens of groups have sprung up in the U.S. and Europe to fight for orthodoxy or traditional ritual. The largest and most vigorous of these in the U.S. is Catholics United for the Faith (C.U.F.), an organization with 135 chapters and nearly 12,500 members across the country. Founded in 1968 by genteel Wall Street Broker H. Lyman Stebbins and four other concerned Catholics, C.U.F.'s main complaint is that religious indoctrination of Catholic youngsters has virtually been taken over by liberal priests, nuns and publishers. As a result, they contend, traditional doctrines of faith and morals are hardly...
This is the modern ritual of power. It is a final exhilaration for men in these positions, a distillate of the presidential spectacle that sweeps across oceans and mountain ranges with such ease...
Despite recent U.S. economic troubles, the statement still applies. The Soviet leaders would never publicly admit this, and probably most of them do not even admit it to themselves. But the most sophisticated of them, for all their ritual denunciations of the U.S., are continuing a relatively sophisticated process of analyzing U.S.-Soviet realities...