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Next morning, Brandt and Kosygin talked for two hours in a Kremlin conference room. Kosygin spoke of the Russians' strong desire for closer cooperation with Bonn on economic, scientific and other technological matters. He also referred specifically to Soviet fears of neo-Nazism. But Kosygin added: "We trust you, and if you explain the subject to us, we shall listen carefully." Brandt assured Kosygin that his country's social and economic conditions differed immeasurably from the Germany of the pre-Hitler period, and took up Kosygin's proposal that the two governments make immediate plans for economic...
...Aces. Because she comes from and writes about California, one would not at first associate her with the neo-Gothic literature of the South. Yet she has, in fact, brought the Southern mentality west. In a revealing essay about her native Sacramento Valley, she mourns the passing of a comfortable, interlocking gentry that were her ancestry. They built manor houses amidst their vast fields of hops and tomatoes, ignoring post-World War II newcomers who brought real estate developments and aerospace factories-until the parvenus usurped their world. Like Faulkner, Didion has an overwhelming awareness of human corruption...
...little girls from Brooklyn and neighboring boroughs have tried to stake out their own corner of the action and of the change. While most of them, including Streisand's half sister, Roslyn Kind, have got lost en route, three are belting along toward the top. The trio of neo-Streisands...
...money and enjoying it is camping. Last week, from Maryland and Virginia's Assateague Island to California's Yosemite Valley, the national parks were in something like a state of siege-and they were still a month away from the season peak. Unhappily. Americans in their massive, neo-Thoreauvian urge threaten to create precisely the environment they are trying to escape. A haven like Yosemite, once celebrated by naturalists and the National Geographic, offers roughly the solitude of Central Park on a weekday. Says one Interior Department official: "Visiting Glacier National Park is like going to a Safeway...
...bogus exaltation of human tragedy to cathartic spectacle, wherein great men fall from pinnacles in the all-seeing determinist universe of the Fates. Director Laurence Senelick has chosen the Seneca version over the traditional Sophocles "to remove the play from the realms of both Freudian psychology and aloof neo-classicism." This may also mean that he has chosen a play which, because of its gore and violence, leads to a denial that there is anything more in suffering than suffering; a denial that tragedy can be uplifting in transcending itself. The production calls for a belittling (rather than enlarging) honesty...