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...pretty romantic proposition, especially for a man who had dedicated himself to abolishing every article of romantic faith. But Brecht knew well, and portrayed with ruthless accuracy, the inbred conservatism of power, the stale air of the cloister that can smother the free, creative spirit. What makes Galileo impor tant, finally, is its ironic accounting of the price of compromise and even of freedom...
Longtime Gladiator. There, for the most part, the similarities end. A longtime gladiator in the public arena, Myrdal served in the Swedish Parliament in the 1930s and was an impor tant architect of the Swedish Labor Party's welfare state. He was his country's Commerce Minister from 1945 to 1947 and head of the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe for ten years after that. He is a considerably more familiar figure than his fellow laureate, largely because of two major works published nearly a quarter-century apart. While a professor at the Uni versity of Stockholm...
...below, where fruit trees were blossoming in contrast to the snow above, the fighting on the mountain was already having a profound political effect. Syria's President Hafez Assad, in Moscow last week on a six-day visit, got the kind of reception reserved for much more impor tant chiefs of government. At a Krem lin dinner for Assad, Soviet Party Leader Leonid Brezhnev promised the Syrian President unlimited amounts of Soviet planes, missiles and other armament to replace Syrian losses to Israel in the October war. The reason, Brezhnev explained, was that the Russians were not able...
...romps sardonically over the history, sociology and psychology of America's love affair with the gat with out getting bogged down in the theoretical musings of experts. The over whelming evidence of his senses seems sufficient. His best achievement is to report fully and clearly the most impor tant facts about guns: they are a huge, influential business. Last year alone, Americans spent $581.6 million for fire arms and ammunition...
...universal sense of justice." The jury deliberated over four days and finally returned not-guilty ver dicts on all counts. Though only 17 of the 28 stood trial, the Government said it would recommend dropping charges against the remaining defendants. It was a "verdict against the war," said Assis tant U.S. Attorney John Barry...