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VENICE OBSERVED, by Mary McCarthy. The year's best travel book. Its three telling assets: Venice itself, a place of changeless enchantment; scores of excellent illustrations; and the sharp, civilized mind and fine writing talent of Observer McCarthy...
...which Aladdin found jewels growing on trees ... A wholly materialist city is nothing but a dream incarnate. Venice is the world's unconscious: a miser's glittering hoard . . . This is the spirit of the enchantment under which Venice lies, pearly and roseate, like the Sleeping Beauty, changeless throughout the centuries...
...tribesmen rode from winter pasturage in Shiraz and Khuzistan to summer fields in Isfahan province. In their ankle-length gowns and brimless felt hats, they nimbly crossed rock-strewn slopes, driving herds before them. At Do Polan summit the brazen, electronic voice of the 20th century met the ancient, changeless East. Four loudspeakers placed around a neat white tent blared at the tribesmen: "Stop...
...successful, and always disdained flamboyance (from 1905 to 1935 it even refused to put its name over the door). It still uses hand-drawn advertisements, refuses to sell cultured pearls, shies away from setting or even appraising any gem not bought at Tiffany's. Its personnel seems changeless too. Out of 617 employees, 258 have been with the company more than 25 years, two of its officers are direct heirs of Founder Tiffany, and President Moore is a great-grandson of an early partner...
...with a sense of shame . . . that my country has negotiated its foreign policy from the stand point of spiritual apostasy and moral weakness rather than of strength . . . The Eisenhower-Dulles regime marks the wholesome arrest of a drift in foreign relations, but something more than a plea for changeless principle is needed. Sin and redemption are still primary reference points for national survival...