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...this notion of calling a regional Anglo-American culture the world's only great culture was a mechanism of social, economic and political control. We have to expose that, critique it and move on, because it's a new world. We can either be rooted in the 19th century or we can blast off to a whole new millennium...
...QUICK perusal of Harvard's course catalogue will bear out the Anglo-American imbalance. This year, the English department offered 30 courses that could be classified as teaching mainly British literature, or mainly American literature. Of those 30 courses, only nine focus on American literature...
...some completed and some prevented -- between Western countries and Iraq. Two years ago, a British engineering firm in Coventry, Matrix-Churchill International, was found by British customs to have exported precision lathes and supplied training to Iraqi engineers. There was nothing illegal about either transaction. In March a joint Anglo-American sting operation foiled an attempt by Iraqi agents to ship to Iraq through London's Heathrow Airport U.S.-made electronic capacitors that could be used in a nuclear bomb...
Mandela and De Klerk met to cool the crisis, but De Klerk wants communist Slovo dropped from the A.N.C. delegation. It will be difficult for Mandela to oblige. In the long run, though, the real danger may lie in the government's taking the threat of communism too seriously. Anglo-American Corp. director Bobby Godsell predicted that blacks in South Africa would reject socialism, just as East Europeans have. But this assumes that the government will resist any temptation to slap a new ban on the party. Says Godsell: "Communism has to be defeated in the minds of voting people...
Sontag's first two collections of essays, Against Interpretation and Styles ) of Radical Will, also made her a crucial guide to the intentions of the avant- garde. She attacked Anglo-American fiction for being "deeply, if not irrevocably, compromised by philistinism," for clinging to realism instead of pursuing experimental technique, as James Joyce and Gertrude Stein had done. In all, the effect of her complaints was electric, a bracing shot at some of the more complacent positions in American thought. But her critics accused her of trendiness, of bowing to Europe, of hostility to art's moral purposes. They charged...