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Foreign writers have rumbled across America in buckram and paperback trying to conquer it, to understand it. But Americans themselves now seem to have trouble imagining their country. The terms and arrangements of the American enterprise are changing. The entire American proposition has been built upon the premise of ever expanding opportunity, upon a vision of the future as a territory open-ended and always unfolding, upon ascendant history. "We are the heirs of all time," said Herman Melville. What happens if the future seems to be closing down, to be darkening? If nature, first an enemy to be subdued...
...year. Nearly every family is affected; one out of every four Americans will eventually be stricken with the baffling disease. Progress has been made in treating some forms of cancer. Yet despite years of great effort and expense by government and private researchers around the world to understand and conquer the disease, the best that many cancer victims can hope for is to have their lives prolonged for a few years by one or a combination of three kinds of often unpleasant, debilitating and sometimes disfiguring treatment: surgery, radiation and chemotherapy. Two-thirds of all cancer victims eventually...
Over the years Church has cultivated some techniques to enhance his impressive productivity and spur his prose. To conquer writer's block, for instance, he sometimes paces TIME'S corridors for miles at a stretch. His explanation: "I hope that once my legs begin to move, the mind will follow." In his Business section days, Church followed a less conventional but surefire ritual to get his journalistic juices flowing: a pre-cover-story haircut. Alas, he laments, "I've had to abandon that practice since moving to Nation. Cover stories come more frequently here...
SPEAKING with the tepid fervor of a Calvinist who has repressed even the heat of his Puritanism, President Carter last Friday solemnly painted his own vision of how the nation can at last conquer inflation and recapture past economic glory. It is a narrow vision, with no bold initiatives to harness the energy and resources of the American people. Instead, it demands they submit passively to "pain" and "discipline." Fifteen times those dolorous syllables rolled from the President's pursed lips...
...dirtiest political deals in history was made in 1202, when the Venetian Republic agreed to ship the Fourth Crusade to the Holy Land to conquer the infidel. An army of some 35,000 men, including hairy Prankish thugs as well as idealistic Catholic knights, assembled on the Lido, but no ships appeared; the Venetians wanted more money for the transport job. After months of delay and misery, the deal was made: as part of the fare, the Crusaders agreed to make a detour on their way to Palestine to seize Constantinople, the capital of the Byzantine Empire, so that Venice...