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More seriously, in the space of two centuries, 13 colonies in revolt became the foremost world power after spreading over a whole continent, absorbing and melding refugees from all nations and transforming them into genuine Americans. This prodigious epic unfolded in liberty and through liberty. It was rooted in a democratic Constitution, which, with a few amendments, has remained both in letter and spirit the same as the one that was written by the founding fathers...
...scarcely seem to have recovered any political ground. Says Small Businessman Eugenic Buontempo of Naples, reflecting the resigned attitude of millions of his countrymen: "We've tried everything else; we might as well try the Communists." Gianni Agnelli, head of the giant Fiat company and Italy's foremost industrialist, describes the Christian Democratic government today as "confused" and "incapable...
...verse by the 11th century Lady Sagami, "Tagasode: whose Sleeves . . .," has been adopted as the title of the spring exhibition that opens this week at New York's Japan House Gallery. It consists of 43 elaborate Edo-period kimono, chosen from 11,000 examples from Japan's foremost private collection. Almost all the techniques of kimono making - especially the two major ones, tie-dyeing and resist-dyeing - are on view in examples of the highest quality (see color...
Died. Alfred Bennett Harbage, 74, emeritus professor of English at Harvard and perhaps the nation's foremost Shakespearean scholar; of a heart attack; in Philadelphia. Editor of the Pelican edition of Shakespeare's works and author of such studies as Shakespeare and the Rival Traditions and As They Liked It: An Essay on Shakespeare and Morality, Harbage was scornful of all theorists who argued that Hamlet and Macbeth might actually have been written by Sir Francis Bacon, Christopher Marlowe or any other pseudonymous poet...
...Foremost among the pragmatists were the six Presidents, Democrats and Republicans alike. Before World War II, F.D.R. authorized wiretaps of suspected "subversives" without ever defining just what a subversive was. He also asked the FBI to file the names of Americans who criticized his national defense policies and supported those of Colonel Charles Lindbergh, who was then preaching isolationism. With similar Executive arrogance and in the same tradition, the Nixon Administration was installing illegal wiretaps and using the Internal Revenue Service to hound its domestic "enemies" 35 years later...