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...just the kind of system Harvard professors like to condemn in theory. They are under the tight control of the dictatorship; dissident professors are fired and sometimes tortured until they renounce their political views. Students are forced to study what the Shah considers his great achievements as a ruler, and their protests usually result in arrests or injuries...
...Persian proverb Ever since the oil crisis that rocked the world last year, the autocratic ruler of Iran has, to many people, indeed seemed to be basking in the light of the Almighty. Iran sits atop an estimated 60 billion bbl. of crude oil, or roughly one-tenth of the world's proven reserves. The disposition of "this noble product" (as Iranians like to call it), and the money to be made from it, is in the firm hands of one man: His Imperial Majesty Mohammed Reza Pahlavi, Aryamehr (Light of the Aryans), Shahanshah (King of Kings). Once dismissed...
...eyes of Iran's 32 million people, the prosperity and national prestige the Shah is bringing them has bathed their ruler with new luster. Thus last week, when the Shadow of God celebrated his 55th birthday-his 56th by Iranian reckoning, which counts the day of birth as one's first birthday-the national holiday was observed with particular fervor. The capital city of Tehran (pop. 3.8 million) glowed from the light of millions of colored lamps. As part of the festivities, the Shah and lissome Empress Farah reviewed a mass exhibition of gymnasts in the $185 million...
...make an argument. Liberman, by and large, was left out of the accounts of New York art in the '50s; the very look of his paintings tells why. Rather than the complicated, relational colors of much abstract expressionism, Liberman used plain primaries. Instead of free drawing, he used ruler and compasses. Rather than drips and splashy brushwork, he went in for the most even and perfectly crafted skin of paint-flat, enameled, not a hair mark showing. Nothing could look less like a '"50s picture" than the smooth, symmetrical, emblematic formats Liberman was making in the 1950s. Except...
...those who are anything but cynical in supporting the President. Pollsters identify them generally as people who are older, less well-schooled, conservative and more than likely Southern. The question is whether many of them are for the President or for the presidency-like monarchists, identifying the ruler with the country. Charles W. Colson, in a memo about opinion-manipulating, quoted a pollster's theory that "50% of the American people at least will always believe what any President tells them because they want to believe what any President tells them." The percentage who do today has shrunk...