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...American Short Stories is matched only by Prize Stories: The O. Henry Awards as a dependable fiction barometer, it has always been the stodgier culling of the year's best. After longtime series editor Martha Foley died in 1977, Houghton Mifflin tried to "enliven the series and broaden its scope" by introducing annual guest editors. In the five years since the innovation, a number of editorial biases have been expressed, and this year Anne Tyler, author of Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant, got her chance...
That puts the movement at apparent odds with much of the general public. According to a poll commissioned by TIME and conducted by SCOPE, a Lucerne-based market research firm, most West Europe ans have closed ranks with their govern ments on the missile issue. Indeed, most people li ving in countries where missiles will be stationed approve of NATO'S dual-track strategy (see chart). West Europeans clearly perceive a serious military threat, not so much from the tough-talking Reagan Administration but from the Soviet SS-20s. The consensus over deployment, how ever, is both precarious...
...scope of Luther's work has made him the subject of endless reinterpretation. The Enlightenment treated him as the father of free thought, conveniently omitting his belief in a sovereign God who inspired an authoritative Bible. During the era of Otto von Bismarck a century ago, Luther was fashioned into a nationalistic symbol; 70 years later, Nazi propagandists claimed him as one of their own by citing his anti-Jewish polemics...
...measures as "an appalling document." Former Undersecretary of State George Ball testified that enforcement of the Reagan directive "would require the establishment of a censorship bureaucracy far larger than anything in our national experience." The American Society of Newspaper Editors denounced the policy as a "peacetime censorship of a scope unparalleled since the adoption of the Bill of Rights...
...find out that N.E.P. stands for New Earth Protest until well into the first act; the issues are a given which group members never discuss. But this "generic labeling" leaves the scope of the play free to focus on the characters and what draws them to what they imagine to be the basement barracks of revolution. Thus the development of the fledgling organization is a frame in which to view the development of the characters. While they are well acted in some cases it is difficult for them to break away from the stereotype of the radical chic and revolutionary...