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Plainly, the road toward East-West detente is not exactly a high-speed expressway. It is vulnerable, moreover, to the sort of old-fashioned petty nationalism that is still able to poison relations between states. Last week, after a needless spasm of local hatreds had spoiled the atmosphere, Yugoslav President Josip Broz Tito canceled what would have been his first official visit to Rome. The flare-up involved Trieste, the Adriatic port city that has been disputed territory for many years and that nearly became a casus belli between East and West after World...
...religions, including the predominant Orthodox Church. Hardest hit were the 1,560,000 Uniate Catholics, who are in union with Rome, but practice the Byzantine rite. The Uniate Church was outlawed, its five bishops and most of its parish priests arrested. Many died in prison. In a second spasm of repression in 1958-60, hundreds of Orthodox priests, monks and lay members were flung into prison. Even Patriarch Justinian was briefly placed under house arrest...
...Smith as Hedda strides silently onto the empty stage. Clad severely in white, she is pale and tense, her features a mask of mortal exhaustion and despair that might have been painted by Edvard Munch. She smokes, paces, contemplates herself in a mirror, stares moodily, doubles over in a spasm of nausea. All of the contradictory qualities that are to make up her mordantly gripping performance she foreshadows in mime: hauteur and anxiety, narcissism and feelings of revulsion toward her femininity, commanding energy and naked vulnerability. In overture and miniature the theme has been inexorably set. What follows is inescapably...
...those issues are. Across the U.S., the universal fear of violent crime and vicious strangers?armed robbers, packs of muggers, addict burglars ready to trade a life for heroin?is a constant companion of the populace. It is the cold fear of dying at random in a brief spasm of senseless violence?for a few pennies, for nothing...
Failure rates varied widely. For primary impotence, a symptom treated in 32 males, it was 40%?in the authors' judgment, a clinical "disaster." On the other hand, vaginismus?a form of muscular spasm making intercourse difficult or impossible?proved totally amenable to treatment. All 29 of the patients with this complaint were cured within two weeks...