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...aliens. After World War II, the McCarthy period seemed to strike an ominous and familiar chord. Mann, who had found in California his Eden, came to dismiss it as "an artificial paradise," America as a "soulless soil." Einstein complained that Americans, shortchanging their idealism, were not American enough. Psychologist Erik Erikson once wrote that only in the U.S. could Freud's prescription for human dignity, Lieben und Arbeiten (love and work), be realized. But he became "increasingly critical of the American Establishment." Arendt spoke for a whole generation when, shortly before her death in 1975, she confessed, "I somehow...
...company also has a fine new staging of Bournonville's La Sylphide by Erik Bruhn, who once danced the role of James eloquently and who is now artistic director of the National Ballet of Canada. As James, Bujones uses his particular aggressive variation on the Bournonville style effectively, and he is nicely complemented by Marianna Tcherkassky's sweet, limpid, almost blurred Sylph. The gorgeous sets by Desmond Heeley are drenchingly romantic, but Bruhn (wisely keeps sentiment in check onstage. A revival of Jerome Robbins' fierce, street-hip New York Export: Op. Jazz has corps kids...
...Hall of Fame members include: two oilmen, W.D. Noel, founder of El Paso Products, and L.F. McCollum, former chairman of Continental Oil Co.; Robert J. Kleberg Jr. of the King Ranch; Jesse Jones, publisher, real estate developer and head of the Reconstruction Finance Corp. during the New Deal; J. Erik Jonsson, former head of Texas Instruments; George and Herman Brown, who developed the giant Brown & Root construction firm; Retailer Charles Tandy of Tandy Corp.; and Arthur Temple, who retired in January as chairman of Temple-Eastex and vice chairman of Time Inc. Three of the four living members, McCollum, Noel...
...Control Expert William Hyland: "Andropov has given the negotiators some room to move about." The latest Soviet offer, indeed, was an effective ploy in a game in which each superpower wants to be the last to make an offer, not the last to issue a rejection. -ByRussHoyle. Reported by Erik Amfitheatrof/Moscow and Strobe Talbott/Washington
Reported by Erik Amfitheatrof and Jordan Bonfante/Hamburg