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Will GM, by trumpeting gas-mileage savings on its smaller cars, be able to reverse the trend and add to the 47% of car sales that it won in the 1976 model year? Or will the other companies make what Ford officials call "conquest" sales to drivers who bought GM cars in the past but do not want smaller cars now? The question is complicated by price increases of almost 6%, which will raise the price of an average GM car to about $6,000-a shocking figure to the motorist who bought his last car three years...
...excerpts from a 400-page study titled Report on the Sexual Behavior of Italians, or, as it was quickly dubbed, "The Italian Kinsey Report." The Italian male emerges from the study as a cursory, inept lover, crippled by a Don Giovanni complex that propels him endlessly toward the conquest of women...
...Crucible, which opened in New York at the very beginning of 1953, was the first historical drama by Miller to face the public (he had written Montezuma, a play about the conquest of Mexico, immediately following his graduation from the University of Michigan in 1938; but it has, I believe, never been performed, or even published...
...settlements defiantly set down in the midst of this vastness, by the coast of Maine or the Rockies or the desert. But that is not loving America. Loving America means loving what it stands for as a political and social vision. Although the great American epic is the conquest and taming of a continent, American patriotism is not concentrated on geography but on a historic event and an idea. The event is the creation of the United States as a fresh start, a different dispensation. The idea is freedom. Both notions have been distorted or perverted at times -that happens...
After the conquest, European visions prevailed, and America was the loser. The image of Latin America as an exotic, picturesque garden lacking any real identity traveled from European visionaries to American artists, who returned it with a vengeance. Even scientific travelers such as Alexander von Humboldt were reduced to painting the American landscape as a grotesque parody of Europe...