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Some Digs. Not everyone was eager to oblige. The U.S. and Britain urged immediate action to head off the danger of a deflationary shortage of international monetary reserves, but orthodox bankers from the Continent demurred. They argued that, first of all, the U.S. and Britain must bring their balance of...
Ecumenical Spirit. Skeptics could almost believe it last week as the hall filled with Indians and Pakistanis, Israelis and Jordanians. In strode 263 judges from every continent, including bewigged Africans in red robes and five justices of the U.S. Supreme Court. Even the Magna Carta was on hand-its first...
But Cole's wilderness was nothing compared with the expanses found by the artists who, from the 1840s onward, Set out to answer the cry, "Westward, Ho!" Freebooters, poets and discoverers though many of them were, they rode the rafts with fur traders, saddled up with military expeditions, visually...
Goethe's greatest masterpiece, however, was Goethe. His character, though flawed, was a work of art; his life, though often desperately unhappy, was a singular achievement. Torn apart by huge and various talents that plunged like wild horses in all directions, he was driven by the threat of emotional...
Asia is the elephant of continents, and Western visitors are like the blind men of the legend: each finds a different Asia and thinks it is the only one. Recent visitors, of course, have experienced an elephant on the rampage; their reports are exciting but often lack depth. To restore...