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JOYCE FOUND IN IBSEN a genius "which faces all, shrinks at nothing." This directness is one reason why Ibsen's legacy has been so treasured in the literature of the century, why his one-time reviewer would accord him the singularly Joycean honor of some sixty puns on his name and works within the pages of Finnegan's Wake. It is also the quality which enabled Ibsen--facing his own last awakening unto death--to make his last play so uncompromisingly despairing of art and life...
...accord, which is to take effect by July 1, reduces the "trading margins" of the six member currencies from 4½% to 2¼%. In practice, that will mean Common Market currencies can drift no more than l⅛% either above or below the midpoint of the new 2¼% band. When any one currency reaches its upper or lower limits, the central banks of member countries will intervene by buying or selling each other's currencies. Until now, the banks have done this by buying or selling dollars...
...accord me, A nd appoint others where I shall fail...
...detente in Europe between the Soviet Union and the West is the innovative Ostpolitik pursued by West German Chancellor Willy Brandt. Until recently, the success of Brandt's flexible policy of accord with the Soviet bloc was virtually taken for granted in the chanceries of Europe. No longer. Today there is a very real danger that more than two years of diplomatic labors could be undone, possibly even drowning Richard Nixon's hoped-for "era of negotiation" in a renewed round of cold war invective. Improbable as it might seem-and to the distress of almost everyone concerned...
...Lebanese government and the fedayeen have an agreement that the guerrillas will not provoke such reprisals by firing into Israel from Lebanon, but no one would admit openly that the accord had broken down. Instead, Lebanon requested, and got, a meeting of the United Nations Security Council in order to ask for a censure of Israel. The Council was particularly angry that the fighting came when it did. Almost simultaneously, U.N. Mediator Gunnar Jarring was visiting Jerusalem to test the possibility of renewed peace negotiations between Israel and Egypt. The outlook, in light of the renewed fighting: poor...