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Bill Clinton can forget about repeating Jimmy Carter's Camp David Mideast breakthrough. Benjamin Netanyahu and Yasser Arafat arrived at the White House Thursday to open crucial summit talks that will continue at Wye Plantation, Maryland. "Don't expect much," says TIME Jerusalem bureau chief Lisa Beyer. "Washington had hoped much of the agreement would have been worked out by the time talks began, and that hasn't happened...
Foreign ministers of the 16 NATO countries, meeting last week in Washington and at Wye Plantation, an 18th century mansion on Maryland's Eastern Shore, heartily endorsed this approach. Some of the ministers who had recently visited Moscow ventured several explanations for Soviet surliness. They theorized that the U.S.S.R. is on the defensive because of such incidents as the shooting down of the Korean airliner last summer and the failure of the European peace movement to stop the deployment of U.S. missiles in Europe. The ministers speculated that the Kremlin is deliberately fanning anxiety in the hope of causing...
...sexually charged and physically awkward, tense and shapeless. It employs an imagery of encounter to render concrete an almost inescapable sense of solitude. In short, it is physically, if not always formally, rich stuff, and one may be glad that the Museum of Modern Art and Associate Curator Deborah Wye have set it forth in such a detailed exhibition...
...experience of her life. For the next three days, Philosopher Mortimer Adler-compiler of the 54-volume set of the Great Books of the Western World, outliner of the 102 Great Ideas of All Time-is loose again, doing what he does best, teaching. In an experimental session at Wye Plantation in Queenstown, Md., he is trying to stir up high school students on the subject of Aristotle and other philosophers. "I want to do it," explains Adler, 18 months shy of his 80th birthday, "because I want to show it can be done." Adler has long believed that ancient...
Meanwhile, sniffles mingle with hisses in lecture halls and few seem immune. "I had a cold last week, my roommate has one now. Even two of my professors were sick," John Van Wye '81 said yesterday...