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...question "the harsh, raw severity of Le Corbusier jars a world conditioned for softer, more comfortable art forms." I think you should have been far more specific. In its own way the Arts Center was designed so that it would be a functional companion for man "harsh" and "raw" modifiers imply unfriendliness. And this building is not unfriendly at all. Le Corbusier's architecture is based on his own Modular System, a geometric proportion to the human figure, i.e. sixfoot man with hand upraised. In using this system of measurement his work is a derivitive of some of the best...
...exchange for a softer policy on travel across the Wall, the Communists were demanding huge money credits from Bonn. A woman in the American sector said wanly, "Nobody here is hoping any more. My daughter and grandchildren are in East Berlin, only five minutes' walk from here. But I haven't been able to speak to them since September 1961." Though the reunion of families is banned. West Berliners did have some mild cause for rejoicing. A year ago, the Communists were talking noisily of an imminent separate peace treaty with the Soviet Union, with its implied threat...
...insist on comparing their bird with Minuteman and Polaris, claim its critics, they are on shaky ground. Skybolt is more elusive than a land missile only when it is airborne. But the cost of keeping a B-52 fleet aloft is immense -and a SAC base is a much softer target than a hardened silo. A nuclear submarine may move slowly, but it can be deployed within striking range of its targets for months without refueling and at low cost...
Guevara's more bellicose remarks were blue-penciled out by the Worker's London editors-Moscow has decreed a softer line these days. Che, among other things, told the Worker correspondent: "We know that some people in Europe are saying that a great victory has been won. We ask whether in exchange for some slight gain we have only prolonged the agony. So far, all that has happened is that a confrontation has been avoided." Taking the Chinese "war is inevitable'' position. Che went on: "The Cuban revolution has shown that in conditions of imperialist domination...
...tendency for expansion to slow down" among the Six. The free world lag, says top Japanese Economist Ryokichi Minobe, "is not so much a slowdown of a recession nature, but a forced adjustment back to more normal, healthy rates." All over the world this forced adjustment shows itself in softer demand and sharper competition, in that old profit-price squeeze and nervous stock markets...