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That situation has created what may well be NATO'S chief problem: how to maintain its strength and raison d'être in an age of détente. Inevitably, the quality of NATO's components has begun to waver more erratically than ever. The Italian army is moderately well trained, and could probably defend its own country against attack as long as the U.S. Sixth Fleet controls the Mediterranean. The French army, in contrast, may be the weakest of NATO's major links...
...much of the 20th century, many leading avant-garde composers have arranged their notes, rhythms and timbres according to predetermined schemes or series. Such major works as Arnold Schoenberg's Serenade and, more recently, Pierre Boulez's Le Marteau sans Maître have been serial compositions. Indeed no one has championed serialism more than has Boulez, the onetime enfant terrible of French music who is now the 47-year-old conductor of the New York Philharmonic and the BBC Symphony. Yet there was Boulez in Manhattan last week introducing his new 31-minute composition . . . explosante/fixe . . . and conceding...
...most ancient civilizations, jewelers made little use of precious stones-and when they did, they used them to embellish essentially sculptural designs. It was only in later times that gems themselves became jewelry's raison d'être: partly because craftsmen learned to cut them to reveal their undeniable beauty, partly because they were believed to possess and emanate magical powers. As late as the 15th century, emeralds were prescribed as cures for epilepsy, dysentery and failing eyes, as guards against evil spirits and sure protectors of chastity. By the 20th century, says English Jewelry Expert Peter Lyon...
...sugar content and ferment into acidic, watery wine. If there is too much sunlight, the grapes can shrivel like raisins and produce overly sweet wine. In Europe, where such meteorological metamorphoses are fairly dramatic from year to year, vintage dating has an indisputable raisin d'être. But in California, where sunlight is plentiful and rainfall consistent, one year's wine is not much different from the next. To help maintain uniformity further, many California vintners blend wines from different years to mask annual variations in quality. The trained tongue, however, can detect some yearly differences. This year...
...Black caucus that met in Gary, Ind. [March 27], had as its raison d' être the roots of prejudice. Its members built rhetoric on the atrocities of discrimination. They said they stood for justice and against exploitation of human beings. And yet how easily they ignored the only group whose fortitude truly challengs the foundatios of prejudicial thinking, whose political aims so closely reflect those the caucus gave lip service to− women. So firmly entrenched are we in the roots of prejudice that even the discriminated against act in turn to discrimate. Does anyone doubt it that...