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When a country of considerable scenic beauty is plagued by a chronic shortage of foreign exchange funds, the standard solution is to build a few luxury hotels, print some brochures advertising the virgin beaches and rugged mountains, and brace for the flood of tourists. Leave it to Albania to invent a new wrinkle that is absolutely guaranteed to keep the tourists away in droves...
...standard of one code for men and another for women to a realistic new code that would grant both sexes equal freedom and responsibility. They singled out for criticism a recent Soviet film in which the man roughs up his fiancee after he discovers that she is not a virgin. It was none of his business, contend Kharchev and Golod. They recommend that "women should have the right to have premarital and extramarital sex life...
AMERICA has always had two contradictory desires, two tendencies in opposite directions. The first is to build a new paradise on virgin land. The second is to seem a part of the acknowledged grandeur of Western culture...
...look at everything from a Christian standpoint here." Harrison said. "But that doesn't mean we don't run regular educational programs. We just use as our starting point the doctrines of the Scriptures-the Virgin Birth, the revealed word of God, and so forth...
...exhibition stresses its second point: primarily Tiepolo's influence on his two sons. Domenico and Lorenzo, and his differentiation between other artists of this atelier. Giovanni Raggis works are much more subdued than Tiepolo's works: Raggi's less effective style of wash makes one appreciate Tiepolo. Raggi's "Virgin" (=25) clearly evolves from specific Tiepolo drawings such as =12, Tiepolo's influence on Francesco Lorenzi is also prevalent. The chalk drawings of these two artists were sometimes indistinguishable...