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...Middle East and telling them, "Get set to go into battle. We'll let you know shortly which side you'll be fighting." But the key reason for relying instead on the U.N. (though the State Department would not say so) appeared to be a desire to bind Russia to help keep the peace. Russia is already involved irresponsibly in the Middle East by the sale of arms to Egypt; the need was now to involve her responsibly in the Middle East as well, by making her one of the guarantors of peace...
...therefore revolted him. "Early in my life," he once explained to his wife, "I found man ugly, and animals seemed to me lovelier and purer; but even in them I discovered so much conflict [that] my representations became even more schematic and abstract." Marc's method was to bind the animals he painted into strong, elaborately rhythmical compositions. That made them seem atone with their environment, which was the state he himself longed for. He transformed their animality with flashing colors; a horse might be sky blue or fire...
...Allies insist that a reunited Germany must be free to make or refuse to make alliances. West Germany is already a member of NATO. The West recognizes that Bonn's signature cannot bind a united Germany, but expects that a reunited Germany would prefer to join the West. If it does, both Britain and France are ready to "take account of the legitimate needs of Soviet security," even possibly to guarantee that an all-German army should be no larger than West Germany's proposed twelve divisions. The U.S. is considering an arrangement by which the Western half...
...chosen for his literary portrait. In Faithful are the Wounds, Miss Sarton neglects such precautions. The novel has, for people who have lived through the event she describes, all the impact and all the pain of a newspaper account or a contemporary history. But Miss Sarton does not bind herself to the accuracy such forms demand. She can swipe out at the living and make her blow felt, writing as she does half from fact and half from fancy. Such writing is not satisfying in literature, suspended as it is between responsibility and imagination. An author's choice of this...
...state governments, the capital of private foundations is meager. But there are legitimate areas of giving in which foundations can make a great contribution. While government action may be bound by considerations of public policy, foundations can often risk unpopularity by undertaking necessary research. Where popular complacency could bind government to inaction, studies by private groups like the Fund for the Republic can break down some of this complacency...