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Finally, there is a certain disappointment with the idea of Europe itself, a sense that the Continent's greatest postwar dream, West European integration, has lost momentum. Since the mid-'60s, the principal focus for that aspiration, the European Community, has been burdened by frequent bickering and haggling. Typical was...
Nonetheless, apprehension runs deep on the Continent that the nuclear-arms race between the superpowers is accelerating and that the battlegrounds of World War II could be those of a future East-West conflict. That fear is in a sense a permanent symptom of Europe's subordinate, postwar place in...
The pertinent question for the 40th anniversary of V-E day is how the Continent will shrug off its discomforts and limitations, and reignite the promise that was so stunningly fulfilled, at least in Western Europe, during the immediate postwar years. Part of the answer will depend, as it has...
On the whole, his intellect prevailed; as new readers continually discover, Jarrell became one of the best and probably the most erudite of American literary critics in this century. The question "Have you read . . .?" recurs often in his letters, and he seems to have read nearly everything: psychology, anthropology, quantum...
Decades later, when he returned as a New York Times correspondent, Malcolm discovered that Canada was more different than ever. In subsequent voyages by car, jet, helicopter and dog sled, he found an immense, diverse continent-country, thinly populated by a talented but strangely self-deprecating people. The sheer size...