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...Communism is an emblem and instrument of Soviet power, even potentially, its preservation by force becomes an imperative of Soviet policy. So the struggle continues, both within the Communist world and between East and West, and it may escalate dangerously in the decades ahead. -By Strobe Talbott. Reported by Erik Amfitheatrof Moscow and Richard Hornik, with other bureaus...
...Henry Muller. Reported by Erik Amfitheatrof and Roland Flamini/Bonn
...Richard Stengel. Reported by Erik Amfitheatrof/Moscow
...major action now is the distillation of the novelties of 30 years ago." Ever the critic, he pithily appraises such composers as Elliott Carter ("not negligible"), John Cage ("a certain comic value") and Roger Sessions ("for the school and college trade"). Erik Satie, the sardonic French aesthete who raised understatement to a cardinal principle of composition, is still his ideal and greatest influence...
...psychology may be taken a little too straight out of Erik Erikson, or even Gail Sheehy, and the plot verges on the melodramatic (it takes a boating accident to seal the bargain of friendship between the generations). But emotionally On Golden Pond is no less valid for being something of a cliche. Anyway, the characters are so strong that the piece does not play as a cliché. Hepburn, for example may have a less chewy part than has Fonda, but the briskness of her manner, her well-justified image as a no-nonsense individualist who is nevertheless a good...