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...affairs there will be new opportunities for us to enhance the security of the free world and thereby our own security. But there will also be new problems which will have to be faced, particularly how best to maintain the unity of the free world during this period of flux, while old positions, attitudes and relationships are being reexamined...
Patience & Prudence. Johnson takes the same flexible approach to foreign affairs. He believes that new leadership in the Soviet Union, West Germany, Britain, India and Italy indicates a world in flux, full of new problems-but also new opportunities for accommodation. Aware that events may not always be to the U.S.'s liking in such a world, he counsels patience and prudence. The tide, he feels, is running in favor of the West in its competition with Communism. He has faith that world leaders, too, can learn to reason together...
Fowles's acknowledged mentor is the 6th century B.C. Greek thinker Heraclitus, whose extant work consists only of brief fragments declaring cryptically that the universe is in flux, that life is a ceaseless struggle of opposites: fire and water, earth and spirit, love and hate. Fowles shares Heraclitus' reverence for life, his clear-eyed contemplation of the tragic, his love of paradox; and he is even more eloquent...
Signs of Change. In unabashedly reversing himself, Spaak, a canny compromiser of old, was reversing toward reality. For the Europe of 1964 is in flux as never before since World War II -East and West. The war left Eastern Europe in tight military fiefdom to Russia, Western Europe in economic and military dependence upon the U.S., continental Europe thus little more than a no man's land where the outer edges of the two superpowers' spheres of influence menacingly met. No longer. Though the basic postwar pattern remains superimposed across the map of Europe, the nations of Europe...
...bred bead-sayers for whom faith is simply a comfortably furnished apartment of the mind. Inevitably, too, there is a "renewal backlash" of Catholics who like the church the way they find it, and look upon its unchanging doctrines and structures as pillars of security in an age of flux. Such ecclesiastical conservatives complain that Mass in English will turn them into "Bapto-Catholics," and look upon the church's denunciation of contraception as a sign of strength rather than rigidity. "I left the Baptist Church for Roman Catholicism, and now it is being dismantled all around me," says...