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Land, as a physical quantity, seems almost changeless, altering shape only over aeons under the pressures of erosion and volcanic eruption. But the economic and social use that man makes of the land is changing as rapidly as anything in America. An enormous-and disruptive-land boom is grossly inflating prices; a new social attitude is replacing the old idea that a man could do with his property as he damn well pleased. In this special section TIME first examines the dimensions, causes and consequences of the new land rush, which far surpasses frontier land fever. It then compares prices...
These plays are timeless precisely because man is changeless. After more than 2,000 years, the dramas of Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides are the most scrupulously exact and eloquently moving accounts that Western man possesses of the nature of his destiny. Aeschylus' The Persians, which has been revived at Manhattan's St. George's Church, is one of the earliest of these tragedies (472 B.C.). Set before the tomb of Darius the Great shortly after the Battle of Salamis, in which the Persians were crushingly defeated by the Athenians, the play is a spoken song of lamentations...
...matter of fact, all Bruegel's art concerns itself with the changeless and the immediate at the same time. His Dulle Griet is nightmare, which presides, now and forever, in cellars of human sleep. He painted The Tower of Babel as an allegory of old Antwerp, but young Manhattan's towers might as well have been meant. Two Monkeys may be seen as just a humanist's sympathy for the misery of chained animals -or as a symbolist's protest against the plight of the Flemish provinces under the rule of Spain...
...Council to suggest what reforms are to be introduced." But, he went on, "the reform cannot concern either the essential conception of the church or its basic structure." Change, though, is not necessarily bad: "It is not our intention to say that perfection consists in remaining changeless as regards the external forms." But on the other hand, "the Church will rediscover her renewed youthfulness not so much by changing her exterior laws as by interiorly assimilating her true spirit of obedience to Christ...
...Changeless Nightmare. In his allusion to Korea, Goldwater touched a responsive nerve, for the American people's experience in South Viet Nam has been the most frustrating since the long, tragic "police action" of the 1950s that ended in a stalemate with the Reds, at a cost of 33,629 U.S. lives. Small wonder that a recent American visitor to Viet Nam, on his third night in Saigon, had a dream in which he discovered the solution to the Vietnamese problem. "It was brilliant and simple," he recalls, "but somehow it kept slipping away." Feeling slightly embarrassed, he confided...