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...couple of young hoods of the tiny, neo-Nazi German Reich Party daubed swastikas on a Cologne synagogue last Christmas Eve, a sort of involuntary twinge stirred memories round the world. Surely not again? The rash of similar incidents that followed, in Germany and abroad, are now on the wane, but at week's end, with a vehemence rare in him. Chancellor Konrad Adenauer went on the air with a remedy for anti-Semites in action: "I say to all my German fellow citizens, if you catch a ruffian anywhere, execute the punishment on the spot and give...
Even before the Sputnik era, emphasis on science and learning taken on their own merits was increasing, and the demand for General Education was on the wane. A similar transformation taking place within Harvard has put more and more emphasis on professional training and scholarship...
...economy. Another key reason for the Soviet growth-about 8% a year, v. 4% for the U.S., since World War II-is that the Soviets have neglected the consumer needs of their citizens. But now a major change is on the way, and the growth rate is on the wane. Going out is crude coercion of the worker; coming in is personal incentive. This shift, says Nove, requires a major diversion of Soviet resources to the nongrowth sectors that the Kremlin ignored for so long...
...period of Shakespeare's creative productivity covered the rich years from about 1590 to 1613. During this span the Renaissance style was on the wane, though still much in evidence; the Mannerist style was in full swing; and the Baroque style was in its vigorous infancy. Thus it is that Shakespeare's output reflects all three styles: in the tragedies, for example, Othello is Baroque, Hamlet and King Lear are Mannerist, and Romeo and Juliet is Renaissance...
When Catherine is invited to spend a few weeks with a Spanish family, she sees a chance to repair all kinds of relations. Vitamin-packed but starved for iniquity -as far as Air Force gallants go, the Cain in Spain is mainly on the wane-Catherine sets the Spaniards to smoldering. Before long she is exchanging sweet nadas with the very Iberian who has been spreading all the calumnies-a handsome, aristocratic, intelligent, artistic, musically talented blackguard of a bullfighter. He hates the U.S. because it is burying his country's fine old traditions under a mulch of Coca...