Word: willingness
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Aikman jumped at the chance to interview Solzhenitsyn when the Soviet author sent word through his U.S. publisher, Farrar, Strauss & Giroux, that he would be willing to talk to TIME. Says Aikman: "For any student of Russian thought and literature in the 20th century, Solzhenitsyn towers above the landscape. He...
George Bush has acknowledged this turnaround in Soviet policy by proclaiming it an opportunity for the U.S. to move "beyond containment." Already there has been a shift in U.S. policy toward diplomatic compromise in all three of the principal regional conflicts. In Nicaragua the Reagan Administration wanted to overthrow the...
Republican Governor James Thompson has vetoed antiabortion legislation. Attorney General Neil Hartigan, the most likely Democratic candidate to try for Thompson's job next year, has announced his personal opposition to abortion and, as the state's top lawyer, is obligated to uphold some restrictions the state did enact. So...
Shamir's initiative was never more than a tentative move toward starting a dialogue between the Israelis and the Palestinians. It offered Arabs in the occupied territories the chance to elect representatives to negotiate with Israel a transitional period of self-rule -- a possible beginning if Palestinians were willing to...
The risk in relying on an all-star cast is that it rarely melds into a stylistically consistent ensemble. Big-name actors tend to resist direction or, if willing to cooperate, prove unable: they lack stage training and technique for the classics or succumb to the heebie-jeebies of stage...