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...February, 1968, will be different. A real thaw has come to Princeton, a thaw that has been creeping over the grassy place for a decade. And, even though Bicker--the long ordeal of interviews and meetings that sophomores go through to get into a club--will still be around in February, a whole set of "social alternatives" has already been established. Princeton is changing...
MEMOIRS: 1925-1950, by George F. Kennan. A close-up look at a crucial quarter century of U.S. diplomacy by a man who was one of the first to see the cold war coming, and who was also one of the first to predict a thaw...
They could all unite, however, in their hostility to Communism. Some, like Burnham and Meyer, had been Communists and understood the viciousness of the creed-nor have they forgotten or forgiven. If there has been a thaw in the Soviet Union, there is no way of telling from the Review. The publication denounces the nuclear test-ban treaty as a sellout to the Russians; Burnham writes a column on foreign affairs called "The Third World War"-the Review has no doubt that it has begun. Not long ago, Buckley urged the U.S. to bomb China's nuclear installations-once...
With the death of Stalin in 1953, the Soviet political climate inevitably began to change-and Ehrenburg was the first to dramatize the fact. His novel, The Thaw, gave its name to the new era. It frankly dealt with Stalin's purges and other heretofore taboo subjects, and helped open the way for the Evtushenkos and the Dudintsevs (Not By Bread Alone) to follow...
...doctor's office. The patient is told to fix his gaze on a distant object. Then, while his eyelid is held open, the icy tip of the pencil-size probe is applied to every part of the diseased section for seven seconds at a time. The area is thawed each time with a salt solution to unstick the probe and eye, which freeze together after the fashion of a finger on an ice tray. After the thaw, the entire procedure is repeated twice more. In early cases, the eye should regain its normal luster in four days, with little...