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...demonstrations forced López Rega to quit last July, Isabel became a near recluse. At her infrequent public appearances, she was visibly nervous, often tearful and sometimes nearly hysterical. Last fall, claiming failing health, she took a leave to retreat to the hills of Córdoba to regain her strength. Many Argentines felt-and hoped-that she would resign. Yet 32 days later she returned to the capital, only to be hospitalized within a few weeks for a gall bladder attack that seemed more political than physical...
After 1908 Derain pruned his color to achieve more weighty and old-masterly effects, and was never to regain the same energy. Vlaminck plummeted into coarse self-parody, Dufy tended more and more to crank out pretty little furniture-pictures, and Van Dongen simply fell apart, becoming-in his meaningless virtuosity and appeal to cafe society-an Andy Warhol with red corpuscles. The brief moment of Fauvism was over; naturally, since it was synonymous with youth itself...
Richard Nixon's trip to China [March 1] harks of another era when it was common for displaced monarchs to seek aid in enemy countries to regain a stronghold in their old domain. Senator Goldwater's suggestion that Nixon might do well to remain in China is equally anachronistic, since it recalls an age of international struggles with no holds barred. The concepts of limits even with one's worst enemy (e.g., germ and gas warfare) must surely be expanded to include the non-affliction of Nixon on China...
Poor Relations. To regain momentum, Kissinger and Ford are planning Middle East visits this spring. Kissinger is also urging the Israelis to consider new talks aimed at securing a pledge of nonbelligerency from Sadat. For Egypt, he has announced the proposed sale of U.S. arms to replace Soviet equipment no longer available. So far, only six C-130 transport planes worth $39 million are included, but Kissinger hopes to provide more than that for Egypt. As Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld said last week, "I wouldn't be surprised to find a rifle or two on the list." But such...
...Harvard serves his ends. He wants us to imagine that sullen cadres are manning the ramparts in defense of fairness, for it supports his belief in the broader, more nefarious movement that threatens to turn Harvard into just another indistinguishable subdivision of the real world, a collegiate Levittown. To regain the "character" it has already lost, he believes the University will have to dedicate itself to "intuition over fairness, to judgment over test scores, and it must discriminate before it facilitates...