Dale Harris, in Beautiful Trifles Connoisseur (April 1983), P.O. BOX 10120,
Des Moines, Iowa 50350.
Peter Carl Faberge (1 846-1 920) was the jeweler to the Tsars. In a way, his elaborate jeweled Easter eggs symbolized the decadence of Impe- rial Russia.
Most of Fabergk's creations were domestic items-picture frames, parasol handles, cigarette cases. "Playful, tiny, elegant, designed to en- chant, not to dazzle, they must have helped to mitigate the formal splendor of court life," writes...
Dale Harris, in Beautiful Trifles Connoisseur (April 1983), P.O. BOX 10120,
Des Moines, Iowa 50350.
Peter Carl Faberge (1 846-1 920) was the jeweler to the Tsars. In a way, his elaborate jeweled Easter eggs symbolized the decadence of Impe- rial Russia.
Most of Fabergk's creations were domestic items-picture frames, parasol handles, cigarette cases. "Playful, tiny, elegant, designed to en- chant, not to dazzle, they must have helped to mitigate the formal splendor of court life," writes...
Americans and Europeans is being assumed a growing labor force of Pakistanis, Filipinos, and Koreans, whose cus- toms conservative Moslems find less threatening to traditional mores.
Indeed, Islamic fundamentalism is resurgent, Kraft reports. The reli- gious extremists who seized Mecca's Grand Mosque in 1979 accused the Saudi royalty of abandoning the true faith, and the resulting publicity stirred a back-to-basics movement. Public segregation of the sexes is enforced with growing rigor; Saudi...
Ellen Jones and Fred W. Grupp, in Population and Development Review (June 1983), The Population Council, 1 Dag Hammarskjold Plaza, New York, N.Y. 10017.
To some specialists, the sudden jump in the recorded number of infant deaths in the Soviet Union during the early 1970s was a sign of drastic deterioration in the quality of Soviet life [see "A Different Crisis," Murray Feshbach, WQ, Winter 19811.
Between 1971 and 1974 (the last year Moscow published official data on the subject), the...
the shock of the early 1970s' statistics, the rising rates in European Rus- sia have leveled off, and perhaps reversed. At the very least, they write, the Soviet Union during the 1970s suffered nothing like the "epidemic of infant deaths depicted in . . .the Western popular press."
"The Emergence of Democracy in Spain
Iberia's Fragile and Portugal" Kenneth Maxwell, in
Orbis (Spring 1983), Foreign Policy Re-
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Thomas S. Engeman, in Re-the Constitution view of Politics (Apr. 1982), Box B, Notre
Dame, Ind. 46556.
The secession crisis of 1861 forced Abraham Lincoln to choose whether to seize unconstitutional powers or to stand helpless as the union col- lapsed. He took the former course, raising troops and monies and sus- pending habeas corpus without congressional approval. But he was concerned the dilemma: "Is there in all republics this inherent and fatal weakness? Must a government.of necessity...
sanctioning a usually forbidden concentration of power. But balanced against each other, these two perilous powers secure America's future as a republic.
om Does "The Calculus of Representation: A Con-gressional Perspective" bv Thomas eavanagh, in western political Quarterly
Congress Serve? (Mar. 1982), 258 Orson Spenser Hall, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah 84112.
Do members of Congress believe their primary responsibility is to their home district or to the nation as a...
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"No former President more extended the authority and privileges of the ex-Presidency than President Truman," observes Giglio, a Sou...
refusing to testify before the House Un-American Activities Committee in 1953, Truman also established precedent for the "ex-executive privi- lege" later invoked Richard Nixon.
Truman threw most of his energies into party politics, and here the limits of his influence are most evident. He worked hard for his party's presidential candidates-Stevenson, in 1956, and Kennedy in 1960. But before their nominations, he tried in vain to rally support for his favorites-Averell Harriman and Stuart...
Richard Ned Lebow, in Political Science Quarterly (Summer 1982), 2852 Broadway, New York, N.Y. 10025-0148.
Calculating how many weapons were needed to maintain nuclear de- terrence was a simple matter when the United States enjoyed a clear military edge over the Soviet Union. But today, writes Lebow, professor of international relations at Johns Hopkins, the issue is far more murky. And U.S. military planners may be overstating our needs.
A key consideration is the U.S. "residual" force-how...