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Died. Marshal Kliment Voroshilov, 88, one of Soviet Communism's ranking figures for half a century; in Moscow. Voroshilov was a tireless agitator during the 1917 Bolshevik revolution, rallying workers and soldiers, helping to organize the dreaded Cheka (secret police); during the civil war that followed, he distinguished himself as one of the founders of the Red armed forces, and in 1925 was appointed Commissar of War. Blindly loyal to Stalin, in 1935 he was named a Marshal of the Soviet Union, and rose to the post of assistant chairman of the party's defense committee. With Stalin...
...procreation, high fashion and grand frescoes prove too ephemeral for Orsini. Only the stone of Bomarzo could preserve his suffering and redeem his miserable existence. "Love, art, war, friendship, hope, and despair-everything would burst out of those rocks in which my predecessors had seen nothing but the disorder of nature." It is an outcry that invites both admiration and pity, a strong but unstable mixture that Mujica-Lainez keeps bubbling with an alchemist's patient intensity...
...along been to nature, Audubon goes on to his own fulfillment, to his "glory"-a favorite Warren word. Truly "Westward and fabulous," the painter's vision is shadowed only by the poet's darkly romantic hindsight on what was to follow: the Civil War and that other bugaboo of the Southern soul, industrialization...
OVER 2000 Harvard and Radcliffe students and professors will begin a day-long "fast for peace" this afternoon to demonstrate their outrage over present American policies in Viet Nam. It would be foolish to believe that the fast will have any measurable impact on the American war effort, but the demonstration is nevertheless likely to have several constructive effects and should be supported...
...certain, calculable result of today's fast is that North and South Vietnamese war victims will benefit from over $3500 of desperately needed aid. Though the staggering damage the United States has done in Southeast Asia makes this contribution no more than symbolic, there is still a good chance that the money will save some lives and make a few other lives more bearable. This in itself would make the fast worthwhile...