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...seizure of the oil fields and warm-water ports of the Persian Gulf, ) and as part of a continuing overall Soviet design for the conquest of the world. More moderate experts, like Diplomat and Historian George Kennan, the father of the doctrine that the U.S. and its allies must "contain" Soviet expansionism around the globe, had another explanation. They believed that Leonid Brezhnev and the other Kremlin gerontocrats were seeking a buffer zone against Islamic ferment in Iran, much as Joseph Stalin had erected the Iron Curtain to protect the U.S.S.R. against its enemies in the West after World...
...leaders and shipyard managers in Gdansk entered into church-mediated negotiations. While pay raises and amnesty for strikers were discussed, the effort seemed designed primarily to save face on both sides. Whatever comes of the talks, Poland still faces grave challenges ahead. The government has demonstrated that it can contain major outbreaks of worker dissent, but only by means that are likely to provoke more trouble in the future. The workers have managed to deliver a message of defiance and rage, but they are not able to transform it into political gains. In the empty space between those embittered stances...
...fusion of the pop vernacular with the mainstream classical tradition. He is not alone: Rock Musician Glenn Branca writes raucous symphonies for electric guitars, and the Chinese-American Lucia Hwong brings a cross-cultural sensibility to bear on her wistful New Age musings. But although Davis' orchestral music may contain improvisatory sections reminiscent of jazz, it is carefully controlled and expertly planned. Imagine Ellington's lush, massed sonorities propelled by Bartok's vigorous whiplash rhythms and overlaid with the seductive percussive haze of the Balinese gamelan orchestra, and you will have an idea of what both the Concerto and Notes...
Moreover, greater numbers of arrests will make no difference if the jails are too crowded to contain new inmates. The Los Angeles County prison system, designed to hold 12,800, now houses 22,600. The county's juvenile system, designed for 1,317, is bursting at the seams with 2,006 youngsters. Prisons and juvenile facilities in New York, Detroit and other major cities are overflowing...
...conventional marriage -- for that matter, no conventional relationship of any kind -- could contain a natural force as powerful as Kazan's. If there is, indeed, something "ugly" in his book, it is his account of his 30 years with his first wife, Molly. She was a Yankee of the old-fashioned kind, high- principled and strong-minded. Her acceptance of him was, Kazan admits, the first sign that he might amount to something; her support and the stable home she provided were vital to his success. Yet he betrayed her constantly, in an obsessive love affair with Actress Constance Dowling...