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...culture throughout the Middle East. Warbling a persuasive siren song, French diplomacy stirs up old affections and new troubles in Asia, tempts Latin America with the prospect of being pro-Western, anti-Communist and anti-American all at once. As the two nuclear giants, the U.S. and Russia, hesitantly grope towards better understanding, France treads heavily on their toes. For months France has quietly been offering its "cordial cooperation" in uniting North and South Viet Nam under a neutralist government free of "foreign influence," meaning free of U.S. influence. French agents moved with proposals between Hanoi and Saigon until...
...Bloch's first New York exhibition in 37 years, which includes some of the Blaue Reiter works, reveals that the early, brooding Weltschmerz never left him. Alone and away from movements, however, he fashioned it into an individual theme. In paintings bathed with spectral moonlight, figures of darkness grope blindly through a lonely world, and harlequins act out a private grief in the eternal presence of death. Through...
While the generals and their puppet President were in the palace, South America's second biggest nation saw its wheat-and-beef economy riddled by inflation, unemployment and a towering national debt, its daily life punctuated by nasty little fights between warring military factions. Nevertheless Argentina managed to grope its way back to a constitutional government that took office with new hope. Mature and stable, Illia is a small-town doctor whose middle-roading People's Radicals grew out of a split with Frondizi's Radicals in 1957. His cabinet is notable for a lack...
...atmospheric pressure and the calculus of probabilities-only to recoil in middle life from everything science and reason had apparently achieved. In his last testament, the famous Thoughts on Religion, he emerged as an eloquent defender of religious belief. Science, he declared, was mere presumption, and man could grope his way towards the truth only by renouncing the intellect and "placing his faith in feeling." And yet Pascal was torn. "I look on all sides," he wrote shortly before his death, "and everywhere I see nothing but uncertainty...
...antiworld of the so-called anti-novelists of France, the characters often seem to grope toward each other like blind men buffeted in a high wind. Time moves slowly, emotions are muted, action is rare. The prevailing mood is one of hopelessness in the face of conditions neither invited nor understood. One of the masters of the genre is Marguerite Duras, 48, whose novel The Square was a random dialogue between two strangers who meet in a park, talk endlessly and go their separate ways. Her present book has slightly more action, but it, too, is really a long interior...