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Still, British Strategic Analyst Alistair Buchan argues: "The U.S. is still the world's great experimental society and it does not behoove Europeans to look down their noses at it because we, for the time being, have more successfully solved some problems of crime and environment. This is simply because American problems are on a much, much larger scale." Echoing Tocqueville, Revel and countless other fascinated tourists to the New World, Switzerland's Georges-Henri Martin, editor of La Tribune de Geneve, notes: "America is still our model, for better or worse. What happens there, we find, comes...
TUESDAY: America. Britisher Alistair Cooke again looks at 'the colonies' in a special on the industrial revolution in America. CH. 4. 10 p.m. Color...
Traditionally, American conflicts have a long-lived emotional residue. The Civil War, for example, left resentments and changes that are still felt in American society. If that conflict annealed the Union, it also lacerated the country so deeply that it lost hold of what Alistair Cooke called "the glory that will never be restored." World War I presented a grave shock to isolationist America. Afterward, the nation suffered what amounted to a great fever of xenophobia and anxiety, and the recovery period was appropriately dubbed the Aspirin...
...camera Marco Polo is Alistair Cooke, a longtime correspondent of The Guardian and a naturalized American of several decades. This is not dramatized history, with costumed actors declaiming famous texts. The images are montages of old photos, documents and engravings, alternated with footage of historic settings. Thus, though the words are Cooke's, the real narrator is the camera, which records not only the natural and man-made beauty of America but also much of its human ugliness. (In an upcoming episode, the camera glides behind the porticoes of the ante-bellum South to visit the slave quarters, making...
TUESDAY: America Alistair Cooke Initiates a 13-part series-a very personal and eclectic survey of U.S. history-with an examination of the age of discovery. Using techniques developed in the BBC series "Civilization", Cooke blends paintings and prints with filmed recreations to explore the American past. CH. 4, 10 p.m. Color. 60 min. (Will run once a month...