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...well defined, but when culture is invoked to justify a major political overhaul, it becomes important to understand the limits and implications of the concept. Culture is the sensuous expression of a people; it is an amalgam of historically accumulated arts and skills which allows people to express and develop their creativity. The crucial motor of culture is activity, for it is only through applying oneself that one can learn, and it is only through doing that one can express...
...within NATO. Relations between the two most important of NATO's 15 members, the U.S. and West Germany, have plunged to their lowest point in the postwar era. To Chancellor Helmut Schmidt and other West German officials, Jimmy Carter's wavering earlier this month about whether to develop the weapon seemed to confirm their doubts about the President's ability to lead the alliance effectively. Although Schmidt was publicly muting the impact of the episode last week, Bonn officials continued to complain privately, as one put it, that the neutron imbroglio "makes Carter's leadership even...
...Government also could develop special programs for coping with highly inflationary sectors of the economy. The standout one is the field of health care; Carter noted that daily hospital charges have rocketed from $15 in 1950 to more than $200 now, and doctors' fees have risen much faster than other consumer prices. One big reason: Government and private health-insurance plans guarantee payment of "reasonable and customary" fees, which in practice has meant just about anything that a doctor or hospital can get away with. Carter last week pleaded with Congress to pass a bill he sent up last...
...committee will try to develop additional recommendations for reducing red tape and will also keep an eye on the government, issuing a periodic scorecard which notes its success in implementing the committee's suggestions...
Further back, different chants and songs develop. You hear one band of people try to resuscitate "We Shall Overcome," but somehow it doesn't make it--it seems only an out-of-tune recollection of what it once was like 12 or 13 years ago. It's not that people have stopped believing they can overcome. (Although why should they? What is there in the past ten years to convince them otherwise?) But the song is hard on people who want to believe they are accomplishing something by marching; it's a reminder of the hope that people placed...