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...manifesto by a group of writers and scientists is described as intolerable. Anxiety is expressed over the ease with which Russian tourists cross the frontier, which - a Note suggests - would be better guarded by U.S. troops. Though the Norwegians claim that they merely want to humanize the capitalist system with a view to preserving it, they are told that precautions against a slide further left must be taken in advance...
...dangers to physical survival: thermonuclear war, hunger, police dictatorship and atmospheric pollution. The threats to intellectual survival, he says, are the propaganda of mass culture, spreading bureaucracy and, again, dictatorship. The world's only hope in overcoming these menaces, he says, lies in a rapprochement between socialist and capitalist systems. To suggest how this might be accomplished, he analyzes the growing similarities between the world's two superpowers and lays out a four-stage timetable that would lead toward total U.S.-Soviet cooperation...
...their platitudes. "People, what are you doing?" he cries as the assorted forces of evil tangle in, around, up, down and through his baroque baronial halls. And in a delicious caricature of a caricature, Balík decks out his English and German villains in those capitalist top hats that Communist cartoonists place on all Western heads...
...since F.D.R.'s time seriously threatened the status quo are no more. And no presidential or other oratory will stop any thinking man, American or European, from regarding as strange the assertion that the three most progressive Americans have been assassinated by men who felt rejected by a capitalist society or entertained grudges against...
Snipes & Snarls. Exactly what angered Venetian students about the Biennale has not so far been clearly explained. Three months ago, they occupied the studios at the Academy of Fine Arts and the School of Architecture, began demanding a boycott of the Biennale on the grounds that it was a "capitalist" institution. Early this month, demonstrators in Milan occupied the Triennale building, housing a 13-nation exhibit of architecture and design. Though they were evicted by police, the event apparently unnerved the Venice Biennale's steering committee so much that it "postponed" the opening of two major historical exhibits...