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...Watcher Georgi Arbatov, head of the Institute for the Study of the U.S.A. and Canada. Besides providing twice-daily briefings that began several days before the two leaders arrived in Geneva, Arbatov & Co. mingled with journalists and appeared on the three U.S. television networks and CNN to offer official wisdom on topics ranging from ICBMs to Soviet Jews. "In the West the Soviet Union's situation is not known or is known incorrectly," explained Foreign Ministry Spokesman Vladimir Lomeiko. "There are two reasons for this. We do not explain our position well enough, and certain circles misrepresent our purposes...
...goal that many may find inconsequential because it is not true. In his eleventh novel, Canadian Author Robertson Davies tackles precisely this problem and turns it into a triumph. What's Bred in the Bone not only shows how biography could be written, if mortals possessed supernatural wisdom. It also offers a hero portrayed so vividly that the real world seems at fault for never having produced him in the flesh...
Life is surprising as it happens but remarkably predictable in retrospect. Once time has conferred its brand of wisdom, even the least perceptive person can look back and recognize how one misstep of fate led to another. Thus a hallmark of growing older is the increasing impact of memory, simultaneously spurring regret and reconciliation. Those conflicting impulses are at the heart of Michael Frayn's Benefactors. Its four characters, addressing the audience from the perspective of middle age, watch themselves in flashback as exuberantly misguided young adults. And although the play's nominal topics include high-rise architecture, neighborhood preservation...
Conventional wisdom has it that late Romantics were given to excess. But aside from a few interpolated (and exciting) high notes, there is nothing egregious about the performances. Indeed, as contemporaries of many of the operas--De Reszke was born in 1850, the year of Lohengrin's premiere--the old singers project a freshness and an unforced vitality that are often lacking today...
...were at the Evolution of Psychotherapy Conference in Phoenix and feel your report on it was sensationalistic [BEHAVIOR, Dec. 23]. By focusing on the more extreme views of a few participants, you missed the workshops and working sessions, which offered valuable wisdom, training and hope. Your focus on the controversies gives a totally different impression than we had after a more balanced participation in the conference. Craig Van Tuinen, M.D. Carol Rooke Van Tuinen, R.N. Newton Corner, Mass...