Word: americans
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Williams is strongest where current American policy is weakest (in the uncommitted areas) and muddled where policy is sensibly firm (in direct relations with Russia). His analysis, although not completely convincing, is nonetheless provocative and worth while...
Williams' analysis applies quite neat-nations. In respect to Russian-American affairs, however, his thesis seems to break down. He attributes the responsibility for the deterioration of East-West relations more to the American Open Door policy than to Soviet machinations and seriously underestimates Russian expansive tendencies. It is at best only half-true to accuse American leaders of attempting to "force the Soviet Union to accept America's traditional conception of itself and the world. And to say that "in every case but one, Russia retreated from these efforts [at territorial aggrandizement] in the face of America's vigorous...
...debunking the black-and-white picture of the world that many Americans have drawn, Williams casts doubt doubt upon the entire Western outlook. But as long as the Western posly to the inter-war period and to post war relations with the underdeveloped ition is based--as essentially it must be--on true self-determination and not on self-determination as acceptance of the American way, Williams' doubts may be unnecessary. On the other hand, such expressions as Dulles' attacks on "antheistic" Communism have an ideological, propagandistic tone that Williams and others may usefully call into question...
...season's premiere on July 10 will be Twelth Night, with Miss McKenna as Viola. July 30, she will appear as Lady Macbeth in Macbeth. The Irish actress made her American debut in the title role of Bernard Shaw's Saint Joan...
...appears that Harvard, too, or perhaps especially, has succumbed to a distinctly American ideology; for University officials now promise us bigger and better Dean's Lists along with our bigger and better Houses, facilities, scholarships, and tuitions. We are assured that the percentage of students on the Dean's List is increasing rapidly and steadily, and that we may look forward to a time in the very near future when at least half the class appears on this distinctive roster...