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Rosovsky is fluent in Russian, French, German, and Japanese and has written three books on the Economics of Japan and Asia. He is co-author of a fourth book on Japanese economic growth in the twentieth century, which will be published in July...
...MOST OF US the term "infanticide" is an anachronism. Except perhaps for the few widely publicized sensational tales of psychotic parents or arrant child molesters murdering helpless children, the term connotes the second most common pre-twentieth century method of birth control. (The first, of course, was celibacy...
...LAST few decades has the previously sacrosanct relationship between the doctor and his patient become frayed. Many have speculated on a network of sources for the new conflict. Certainly recent technical developments in diagnosis and treatment have prevented the human contact that had been the trademark of the pre-twentieth century doctor-patient relationship. Increased emphasis upon the contractual aspect of the alliance between the professional and his lay client, and the consequent reduction of time spent between the two parties have enervated that once sacred affinity. Some have additionally, if not alternately, suggested that media advertising has provided...
...Soldier's Tale. Now we all know that only in The Rite of Spring did Stravinsky truly succeed in his lifelong quest for a musical equivalent of Last Tango in Paris. But it seems to me that The Soldier's Tale comes much closer to bringing music into the twentieth century we know today, the century in which the common people--in the poems of Ezra Pound as well as the jungles of Indochina -- insist on asserting their rightful sway...
CURRIER HOUSE DINING HALL, Twentieth Century directed by Howard Hawks, April...