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...would stop selling gold to redeem foreign-held dollars. The "Nixon Shock" has already moved moneymen into discussions that would have sounded like sheer fantasy a few months ago. American officials who once proclaimed the majesty of the dollar now cheer declines in its price on newly freed money markets, because they hold the potential for helping the U.S. balance of payments. Meanwhile, Europeans are reluctantly breaking loose from their mystical attachment to gold and discussing ways to reduce its role in a new system...
...career at roughly the moment when the country was seriously launching itself into the larger world. He traveled the ruined Balkans after World War I, then went to Paris, hoping to join the secretariat of the fledgling League of Nations. "Enemies had been beaten, dynasties toppled, peoples freed, visible results of victory won at frightful cost," Armstrong writes in these memoirs, recalling the hopeful mood that was to seem later the most inadequate innocence. "Surely the nations had suffered enough and learned enough to be ready to try living by a code of rational behavior. It was exhilarating to realize...
...doling out the daily worries of the University to his aides, Bok has freed himself to concentrate on the larger problems which surface in the accompanying interview: 'cultivating federal assistance to universities, coordinating plans with Cambridge and the housing situation, and studying ways to alter and improve education throughout the University, but particularly on the undergraduate level...
...close portraits of the artist as an old man battling desperately to make some central sense of his life before it ends. Borkman, the industrialist, loses the battle. "Those mountains far away . . . those veins of iron ore, stretching their twisting, branching, enticing arms towards me . . . wanted to be freed. And I tried . . . But I failed." But Rubek, the artist, in the last scene of Ibsen's last play, climbs to the top of a mountain and is received into the everlasting snows...
Nonetheless, a profligate inclusiveness tends to drain the phrase "political prisoner" of its specific (and still valid) meaning. To accept the idea that all black prisoners are political is to condemn implicitly the laws that sent them to prison and to suggest that they all be freed. But since an overwhelming majority of the victims of black crime are black, and since most blacks, in or out of ghettos, obey the law, the release of all black prisoners might strike law-abiding Negroes as a subtle kind of redoubled racism. Moreover, in demanding Angela's freedom, radicals forget that...