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...dominated by dictatorship and plagued by the sort of border skirmishes that broke out anew between El Salvador and Honduras last week, what makes Costa Rica different? Partly, there is its enduring system of small landholdings -caused by the absence of a large Indian labor force-which from the earliest colonial times produced a strong, propertied middle class. (Large landholdings did not come into being until the second half of the 19th century, when coffee became the major export crop.) Then, too, there is Costa Rica's historical preoccupation with education, which resulted in a free primary school system...
...know. Perhaps; but Sammler is the first Bellow character who has not misplaced the information so thoroughly that an entire novel was required to follow him through the search for it. The earliest searchers found nothing. The hero of Bellow's accomplished but thin first novel, Dangling Man (1944), sleeps, eats, does nothing. There is little focus to his faint discontent, and while his paralysis of spirit is clearly a statement of some kind, it is not one that he understands...
Does your article mean to ignore what most critics still agree was one of the best and most "real" of all war films, In Which We Serve? And what about the simple, heartbreakingly "real" Brief Encounter? Or Fumed Oak? Or Post Mortem? Or one of his earliest-The Vortex, an in tense, psychological drama? And are the serious, sentimental and romantic musicals like Bi tersweet and Conversation Piece to be dismissed as part of the legend which "dashes off pages of decadent dialogue before breakfast...
...Contours, Williams pushed the origins of the imperial ideology back into the earliest days of the Republic. In The Roots of the Modern American Empire, he broadens this insight and creates a new "consensus" view of American social and economic history. As he told an audience at Harvard last year, he has found that American farmers first fully enunciated the rationale of marketplace expansion as a necessary condition for democracy and prosperity. The agrarians, between 1860 and 1893, coherently argued that such expansion "extended the freedom of all men." Their conception was adopted by industrialists in the crisis...
Reed has been playing it tough since his earliest days in Bernice, La., a tiny (pop. 1,641) farm community 250 miles north of New Orleans. As he recalls, "I hauled wheat, picked cotton, carried watermelons, anything to make a buck." He was named to all-state teams in both football and basketball, and set a school record in the shot put. At Grambling College he made the Small College All-America basketball team twice, and figured to be Detroit's first-round draft choice. But the Pistons unexpectedly bypassed him, and a New York scout named Red Holzman...