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MORE than anything else, this was the year of the Anniversary in Eastern Europe. The celebration of the thirtieth anniversary of the defeat of Nazism--always accompanied by fervent expressions of undying gratitude to the Soviet liberators--dominated city squares, billboards and television screens in every remote part of every Warsaw Pact country. On Czechoslovakia, the celebration had a distinctly hollow ring, the presence of Soviet troops in the country since 1968 kind of putting a damper on things. But in Poland and Romania as well, a lot of people I spoke with this summer seemed to find the "Eternal...
...only old television shows but a number of antique radio serials, such as The Lone Ranger and The Green Hornet, also command fervent fad followings. In the new discotheques springing up round the country, hit tunes from the '40s and '50s are the dominant sound, and there's a whole new Tarzan vogue (see following story...
...Fervent Desire. From Des Moines, Ford flew on to Minneapolis, put on an American Legion cap and defended his foreign policy before the legionnaires' annual convention. Some 12 hours after attacks on his policy by Ronald Reagan and George Wallace at the VFW convention in Los Angeles, Ford emphasized that "Détente means a fervent desire for peace, but not peace at any price. It means the preservation of fundamental American principles, not their sacrifice. It means moderate and restrained behavior between two superpowers, not a license to fish in troubled waters...
Today, ironically, the strength and adaptability of capitalism are appreciated most by fervent socialists who would like to destroy the system but realize they are nowhere near their goal. New Left Philosopher Herbert Marcuse denounces capitalism's profit motive as "obscene" but concedes that it is so powerful that the downfall of capitalism "is not imminent." Michael Harrington, the pre-eminent American socialist, concedes that capitalism "has shown remarkable resiliency" and predicts that it "will spend and plan its way out of the present situation...
Borderland by Neil Claremon. 192 pages. Knopf. $6.95. This remarkable novelette refutes an ancient adage: blood can be coaxed from a stone. The stone is that adamantine sector between Mexico and the U.S. The blood is the fervent tale of an American scientist, J.P., and his Indian mistress, Tsari. J.P.'s gift is an ordinary one: he can only find water under dry land. Tsari has more profound talents: in trances she can heal wounds, commune with animals and see the human soul. It is a secret that she comes in time to share-with ambiguous and perhaps dire...