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From the time they seized power 40 years ago, said Kennan, Russia's Communist bosses have used falsehoods as a deliberate weapon of policy. Four decades of cynical intellectual opportunism "have wrought a strange corruption of the Communist mind, rendering it incapable of distinguishing sharply between fact and fiction in its relationship to any external competitive power." Habitual abuse of truth has blurred in the minds of Communist leaders the distinction between what they really believe and what they find it expedient...
...shuffling of characters on and off stage reveals his unsure stage craftsmanship, as do some of his strongest assets: some of his pungent, well-wrought lines, which sounded excellent from a nearly excessively bright novelist, can sound overpolished in the mouths of characters on stage, especially such a character as a housemaid...
...When Philip II commanded Architect Juan Herrera to build the Cathedral of Valladolid in 1585, Herrera designed it to include a lofty screen, or reja, 45 ft. high and 47 ft. wide, that would span the width of the cathedral between the choir and the altar. Work on the wrought-iron grille .was begun about 1668; the gilding was not completed until 1764. In 1920, when the church rearranged the choir, the huge grille was removed...
...white puttees and black-tasseled bicorn, paced slowly back and forth in front of the brass-studded door that leads into Princess Lalla (Lady) Aisha's green-tiled villa. In the courtyard, a slender fountain tinkled in a garden dominated by four dome-shaped hibiscus bushes; from delicately wrought arbors came the sweet, heavy-bodied scent of flowering blue jasmine...
...from 1950 levels. This truncated republic, about half the size of the old German Reich and with about three-quarters of its population (53 million), looms as the economic wonder of the democratic West. The Germans' own astonishing energy and some $5 billion in timely U.S. aid have wrought their great part in what is universally hailed as "the German miracle." Chancellor Konrad Adenauer has created the indispensable moral atmosphere of democratic order and political responsibility. But the philosopher and engineer of the miracle is a pink-jowled, roly-poly professor, Economics Minister Ludwig Erhard...