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...making such demands. Now, Russia's rukrs were apparently prepared to yield (see THE WORLD). And a key factor in the Czechoslovaks' insistence on neutrality was apparently the same sort of disaffection with the Viet Nam war that has been plaguing U.S. citizens. In Prague, the new-breed officials who are taking over believe that the conflict is in danger of getting out of hand, resent the levied cost of arming Hanoi, and seem to want a de-escalation of Communist involvement...
...marijuana and friendly enemy of mass culture, can be as provocative for the inhibited intellectual as the newest Swedish marriage manual would be for uneasy newlyweds. In his latest venture into "literary anthropology," Fiedler has sought out and identified the spiritual heir of the classic frontiersman, that New World breed who was an Indian at heart. The heir is none other than today's hippie, painting his own sunsets on psychedelic clouds...
Four Myths. The heart of the classic western, says Fiedler, lies in the encounter between White Man and Red Man, "that utter stranger for whom our New World is an Old Home." In the model western, the meeting either changes the White Man into the kind of cultural half-breed typified by James Fenimore Cooper's Natty Bumppo, or results in the destruction of the Indian...
...more than transform a potentiality for revolution into an actuality. They cannot by their exertions create such a potential situation. Such situations are the result of basic economic and social inequities in a society. A large mass of people, oppressed and poor, will sooner or later breed its own firebrands. Persecuting them is as futile as attempting to eradicate malaria by annihilating every mosquito rather than cleaning the swamp...
...unique style thus developed under the tutelage of immigrant European craftsmen became known as mestizo (half-breed). It incorporated Christian and pre-Columbian conventions and beliefs, even included Oriental designs (copied from wares that had been imported via Pacific trade routes). The results were too precocious to pass for primitive, and not subtle enough to claim genuine sophistication. But as two current displays of post-Columbian Peruvian art testify, at its best the mestizo style was both lyrical and inventive (see color opposite...