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Respect for police authority- and policemen- is at a low ebb among the young people in Cambridge, not unlike most communities throughout the country. Cochran conjectured that participation in demonstrations and disregard for the police is "fashionable." "Too many people think that because a man puts on a uniform, he doesn't have a personality or feelings." he said...
...ebb and flow of histories and cultures," Lawrence Durrell once wrote of Cyprus, "it has time and time again been a flashpoint where Aryan and Semite, Christian and Moslem, met in a death-embrace." The legendary island of Aphrodite gained independence from Britain a decade ago. Yet it remains an uneasy homeland to 490,000 Greek Cypriots, most of whom have traditionally espoused enosis (union with Greece), and 110,000 Turkish Cypriots, who have long favored partition of the island. In December 1963, savage fighting broke out between the two communities. In November 1967, war between Greece and Turkey over...
...York Philharmonic in 1971, has been proving his point with a string of Debussy performances and recordings that are nothing less than revelatory. Without any loss of subtlety, he has brought Debussy out of the mists. His reading of La Mer shapes all the surge and ebb of the score into crystalline lines and proportions. He heightens the texture of L'apres-midi d'un faune by building a cunning pattern of contrasts in mood and dynamics. In the ballet score Jeux, Boulez delineates the surprising variety of rhythmic pulses to be found within Debussy's floating...
...ebb of time was paralyzed; the photographs included in Diaries III encourage an emotion very much like what we have when looking over the family album. Only instead of a vague reminiscence, the thought of relatives we knew ten years ago, there is a jarring of the intellect; the moment of rebellion is stunned into life. Edgar Varese in his studio. Nin printing her own works in an attic on Macdougal Street, Robert Duncan as a boy: they all appear, either as apparitions in the photographs or in the text...
RICHARD NIXON'S first official foreign visitor in the White House last January was Galo Plaza, Secretary General of the Organization of American States, and there was a sense of urgency in his call. U.S. relations with the nations to the south were at their lowest ebb in years. The U.S.-conceived Alliance for Progress had been a disappointment, if not an outright failure, and many disillusioned Latin Americans were seriously asking whether the U.S., preoccupied with Viet Nam and domestic crises, really cared. Not until last week, after more than nine months of reassessment, did Nixon give...