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...Chinese people?" To the last question, Dulles' answer: yes. "Communism is repugnant to the Chinese people. They are above all individualists. We can confidently assume that international Communism's rule of strict conformity is, in China as elsewhere, a passing and not a perpetual phase. We owe it to ourselves, our allies and the Chinese people to do all that we can to contribute to that passing. If we believed that this passing would be promoted by trade and cultural relations, we would have such relations...
WHETHER they know it or not, the architect, the layout artist, the sign painter, and even the counter girl who wraps a candy box asymmetrically with a gay ribbon all owe a debt to a lone Dutchman named Piet Mondrian. Cubist Mondrian's crisp, rectilinear paintings, once scoffed at as being mere linoleum patterns, have been one of the most pervasive influences in 20th century design. With their novelty absorbed, his paintings are now being viewed in their own right, establishing Mondrian as one of art's great space organizers...
...knew the danger he risked. Picked up by the AVO security police a few days after his father's funeral, he was not altogether surprised to find himself in the hands of the Communist "confession experts." But he still had no hint of the particular debt he would owe ex-Communist Koestler in the course of the next seven years in Communist prisons...
Since Tito's expulsion from the Cominform in 1948, Albania has been Moscow's only isolated satellite. Its 1,250,000 people, largely dirt poor and illiterate, are ruled by 48,000 Communists, who in turn owe allegiance to the handsome and savagely cruel Communist dictator, Enver Hoxha. Except for an occasional Soviet submarine putting in at Albania's Saseno naval base,* and risky air communications across mountainous and hostile Greece and Yugoslavia, Albania has no contact with the Soviet world. It has almost none with...
...scared to death to play before an audience of sophisticates and gamblers." In 1955, with his driving, metronome sense of rhythm, he recorded a coal miner's bitter lament called Sixteen Tons ("Saint Peter, don't you call me 'cause I can't go, I owe my soul to the company sto' "). Aided by some ingenious orchestration, it shot to the top of the nation's bestseller lists as fast as any record ever made, has sold 4,000,000 copies. His two albums of spirituals became quick and steady Top Ten sellers. With...