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If it can be put in a sentence, Orwell's outstanding quality was his ability to resist intellectual hooliganism and muddleheadedness of any sort. He lived through a decade in which the intelligentsia rampaged through the streets of Europe, hurling their ideas like rocks and firebombs through the windows of...
The new President of the Common Market Commission, Dutch Socialist, Sicco Mansholt, prefers the phrase gross national utility to G.N.H., but he is getting at the same thing. Mansholt wants Europeans "to examine in what way we would be able to contribute to the establishment of an economic system that...
RUSSIA AND THE WEST. Brezhnev, who has committed his own prestige to an improvement of relations with Western Europe, did not conceal his anger that West Germany has not yet ratified the treaties of Moscow and Warsaw (TIME, March 20). The treaties, which call for mutual renunciation of force in...
HIS LOVE OF TRAVEL goes back to his childhood. Although he is originally from Oxford, his father was a business executive who travelled quite extensively, and so Michael moved around a lot as a child. "I suppose that's where I first got a taste for the gypsy life," he...
Old Friend Corliss Lament sent round his suggestions for summer reading in Maine-the Apology, Crito, Phaedo, etc. "I haven't told you about Groton and dear Dwight," young Anne Morrow writes to her sister from Smith College. "He was so sweet and dear and such fun." With a...