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...Manifest Destiny. By that time, both Chicago and Pittsburgh will have expanded until the edges of the three cities touch. Because of its key location on the St. Lawrence waterway and at the junction of East-West rail and motor routes, Detroit "is in the most advantageous location to act as the central urban area of this space." To be sure, Doxiadis added firmly, "Detroit's role is not the most important at present. It is an industrial center, but it does not provide services for a major urban area. It is not attractive as a center city...
...Detroit is to live up to its manifest destiny by the second millennium, it will need massive urban redevelopment: roads, ports, airports, research facilities and shopping centers must be strategically located and built in the next 33 years. How much, where and when? His I.D.E.A.s, Doxiadis promises Detroit, will be ready in two years...
Throughout her history Canada has struggled with the U.S. to preserve her national identity. Canadians regard the 19th century as a period of heroic resistance, when every year brought a new American attempt to achieve manifest destiny in the North. But at the start of the 20th century, the nature of the struggle changed. Americans began to see Canada as a market for manufactured goods and a supplier of raw materials, no longer simply as a source of new territory...
...artists around him, Poussin stripped his paintings down to cool, hard, brightly colored figures gesturing like stagecraft as he recounted his fables. The narrative content of his art instantly made him a mentor for dull academic followers who found cartooning easier than esthetics. But he alone knew how to manifest the inward emotions of his mythical people in outward physical postures. While Narcissus, for example, gazes in the rapturous vanity of youth at his own reflection in a pool, his forgotten lover Echo, is depicted in ashen tones and fuzzy contours, as if evaporating from neglect...
...struggle, Pye said, will probably do great damage to the Chinese society and in the beginning it will probably manifest itself through intensified Maoist policies. It is inconceivable that anyone will be able to challenge the great Maoist tradition in the near future, Pye said, but this rigid period is not apt to be very extended...