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Librarian, I am cold. Pray you, undo this button. Thank you sir. Do you not see the gazelle on the rushing waters? I know he looks at me ("What if Harry Levin wrote the poems of Edna St. Vincent Millay?"). I am sleepy and oozy weeds about me twist. "Chirp...
...single elephant. In a preface to his book The End of the Game (Doubleday; $9.95), whose new edition accompanies the show, Beard argues that the wild Africa of the 19th century is finished anyway, and is already beyond the ministrations of game policy: "It is too late to undo what has been done ... To understand this is to begin to realize that we have conquered nothing at all." To the wild's disappearance, Beard's photos append a haunting requiescat. pending a haunting requiescat...
...dispute only about when to act. Officials at the State Department and National Security Council want to continue the threat for another year; the Labor Department wants to pull out now. Anti-U.S. rhetoric at I.L.O. annual meetings does not, in the view of even its harshest critics, undo what the I.L.O. has accomplished over the years. But it does divert and distract the organization from its basic business of helping the world's workers...
...politicians on the right to pump up the economy more before the elections. Last week he presented to the French National Assembly a 1978 budget that provides only a modest $1.8 billion deficit. Says Barre: "We are engaged in a long-term battle. This is not the moment to undo what we have achieved." He is getting help from a most unexpected source: the labor unions. Though many are led by the Socialists or Communists, the unions have been more docile this year than at any time in recent memory. Reason: they do not want to arouse public hostility against...
Representatives of 35 nations gathered in Finland more than two years ago to sign a document that unexpectedly ignited human hopes across the Continent. But human rights activism in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe sparked by the Helsinki accord threatened to undo years of work toward East-West detente. Thus when a svelte Swedish woman delegate, two priests from the Vatican, a mustachioed Spaniard and some 400 other delegates to the Belgrade meeting of the Conference on Security and Cooperation congregated in the corridors of starkly modern Sava Conference Center last week, much more was involved than a club...