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...nation strong enough to keep its own wars thousands of miles off American shores, and fight them essentially by proxy. Angola today is a superpower war, that won't melt away just because one side denies the reality of its own colossal footprint in the mire. Fifteen thousand Cubans remain in Angola because the U.S. will take no initiative in pressing the Soviet Union for them to leave. And even America's left has been essentially indifferent to the real issue of African liberation throughout the anti-colonial struggle. Bereft of constructive ideas, and unwilling to organize on behalf...
...Fifteen women have been nominated for the two fellowships opened up to Radcliffe students this year...
...FIFTEEN YEARS have seen John Updike create a woodlands mythology out of the manicured green of suburbia, an imitation rather than a statement of what it has been like to be alive in America. Rabbit Run, The Centaur, Rabbit Redux are labors of domestic love, and if sometimes Updike resembles that tranquil genre of English novel, it is out of a modesty as to the possibilities of writing, a concern for the world as it is, and a desire to leave it untrammeled by authorial intrusion...
...bright spot on the fundraising scene. After consultation with Marty Peretz of The New Republic and other fundraising wizards, the Review staff set up after Christmas 1974 a "Friends of the Harvard Political Review" program, consisting of mailed issues of the HPR (with letters asking for regular fifteen-to-twenty dollar contributions) to former Fellows of the Institute and people affiliated with the Kennedy School of Government. According to Saylor, "There's been a good response to our first mailings--it looks promising." But even an optimistic estimate of Friends' support amounts to less than 15 per cent...
Your mind gets lost easily among these fifteen curious new worlds in which images free-associate and shapes warble and trill. It is entertainment that leaves you animated...