Richard Schickel, in the Gannett Center Journal (Summer 1989), Columbia Univ., 2950 The Story Broadway, New York, N.Y. 10027.
Consider the life cycle of a Hollywood film today. It begins with the selling of a brief story "concept" over drinks in Los Angeles and ends some years later as "word of mouth," when one moviegoer delivers a plot summary to her neighbor over the backyard fence.
All this talk of stories is a delusion, writes Schickel, a Time film critic. The tra- ditional...
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cynicism, he says, has its origins in the aes- more than objects of consumerism. thetic theories of the Dadaist painter Mar- A booming art market and a generation cel Duchamp (1887-1968), who declared greedy for quick riches and fame have during the 1950s that artists produce only speeded the decline of art, Gray says. But a raw product; "it must be 'refined' as pure his particular peeve is the reproduction of sugar from molasses, the spectator art in 35-mm. slides now...
Paul Goble, in Problems of
Communism (July-August 1989) U.S. Information Agency, 301 Surprise 4th st. 5i.W., Washington, D.C. 20547.
Mikhail Gorbachev must dread reading Russian-born Gennadiy Kolbin in 1986, Pravda. Each day brings fresh news of eth- the appointment sparked mass demonstra- nic unrest in his country, whether it be tions. But Kolbin himself was soon forced Baltic states demanding their indepen- to become "more Kazakh than his Kazakh dence or Armenians and Azerbaijanis predecessor,"...
Sarvepalli Gopal, in Encounter (July-Aug. 1989), 44 Great Windmill St., London W1V 7PA, Great Britain.
In 1937, the Malagasy poet Jean Joseph Rabearivals killed himself in despair over his inability to reconcile his nationalism with his need to write in French. The reac- tion was extreme, but similar to that suf- fered people in many colonial lands, writes Gopal, a historian at Nehru College. India has been an exception.
The use of English has caused Indians no great discomfort in part because...
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"The Political Thought of President George Washington" byWashington Richard Loss, in Presidential Studies Quarterly (Summ...
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"The Political Thought of President George Washington" byWashington Richard Loss, in Presidential Studies Quarterly (Summ...
Terry W. Culler,
Let Them Eat Cake!
in Cam Policy Report (May-June 1989), 224 Second St. S.E., Washington, D.C. 20077-0872,
In Washington, it is called the "quiet cri- sis." Low pay is demoralizing the federal work force and draining it of talent, warn such "inside-the-Beltway" luminaries as Paul Volcker, the former chairman of the Federal Reserve Board. Volcker now stumps for a big federal pay raise as head of a group called the National Commission on the Public...
Terry W. Culler,
Let Them Eat Cake!
in Cam Policy Report (May-June 1989), 224 Second St. S.E., Washington, D.C. 20077-0872,
In Washington, it is called the "quiet cri- sis." Low pay is demoralizing the federal work force and draining it of talent, warn such "inside-the-Beltway" luminaries as Paul Volcker, the former chairman of the Federal Reserve Board. Volcker now stumps for a big federal pay raise as head of a group called the National Commission on the Public...
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bottle, Steinberg says. Despite many non- the Soviet Union and the West. Washing- proliferation pacts, advanced weapons ton failed even to apply sanctions against have reached the Middle East from both Iraq after it used chemical weapons.
Words and War
From the American soldiers who fought during World War I1 we have inherited "snafu" ("situation normal, all f***** up") and many other words with unprintable definitions. Why this burst of sly verbal insubordination, asks...
politics and chance events.
He also developed concepts that help soldiers understand (and anticipate) the day-to-day vagaries of war. His notion of friction, writes Cannon, was "an elegantly stated predecessor of Murphy's Law," which held that countless minor incidents inevitably lower the level of military per- formance. A related concept is the "cul- minating point," the notion that a combat
But American officers have been most bewitched Clausewitz's emphasis on politics....