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DESCRIBING HIMSELF as "an old-fashioned, liberal humanitarian," who has battled for world-wide prison reform both as a public servant in the New Deal and in the Foreign Service, Martin insists that the allegations against the Saigon government are not true. He said he ordered his embassy staff to conduct a through study of all accusations against Thieu shortly after he took over last year. According to Martin the investigation showed that South Vietnam's civilian prison population is about 35,000--roughly the same per capita population as found in U.S. prisons...
...century aesthetes were more sophisticated--they convinced themselves that words, speeches, scenes, and even whole plays were so bad that they could not have been written by Shakespeare. This was more dangerous than any of Samuel Johnson's incredibly insensitive moral judgments, because it made textual criticism the servant of literary taste instead of a neutral point of departure. The present century has made a fetish out of scholarly objectivity, with good reason; let us hope that the achievements of editors like Gwynne Evans in restoring Shakespeare is as real as it looks now, and not the kind of self...
...gook, the broad, the servant, the spic...
...parts of Gulag. Yet he argued for disclosure of "the bloody crimes of the Stalin era documented in the terrifying pages" of Gulag. Echoing one of Solzhenitsyn's recent appeals, the poet wrote: "In our timidity, let each of us make a choice whether to consciously remain a servant of falsehood or to cast off the lies and become an honest man worthy of respect by our children and our contemporaries...
...Abduction from the Seragllo is probably the first of Mozart's operas that you're likely to love at first acquaintance. It has a rather joyfully ridiculous plot about a talking pasha and his harem and a ferocious servant and a comical Englishwoman and so on, and some remarkable music, and a number of Harvard people are singing in this production, besides. A new translation and full orchestra. Tonight, February 23, and Saturday, March 2, 8 p.m. at the Peabody School Auditorium on Linnean Street...