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...order and sense of justice derived from ancient Greek myths. A romance between a foundling girl of the peasant class (La Chanze) and a scion of wealthy planters (Jerry Dixon) seems hopeless in this life yet is resolved happily in generations to come, through enchantment and physical transformations of mankind into nature...
...latest piece, Endangered Species, she brings something + entirely new: live animals, including Flora, a baby elephant, and Clarke's own horse, Mr. Grey. She maintains that they're being used as "sentient creatures" rather than beasts of burden or embarrassed icons. Finishing the work, which focuses on mankind's domination of nature, has given the former modern dancer little chance to use the $285,000 MacArthur fellowship that she won in July. Says Clarke: "When the call came, I was so busy I had my assistant take a message." While getting the money was nice, in her business the real...
...economics prize is awarded by the same body that awards Nobel's physics and chemistry prizes and follows the same guidelines, including Nobel's wish that the prize shall be awarded to those who have "conferred the greatest benefit on mankind...
...fighting for -- "Dear old Danzig or dear old Dong Dang?" Or "Shall we use some big words like 'democracy' and 'freedom' and 'justice'?" Yes, Luce replied, of course. This does not mean that it is our task "to police the whole world nor to impose democratic institutions on all mankind including the Dalai Lama and the good shepherds of Tibet." But America must primarily blame herself if "the world environment in which she lives" is "unfavorable to the growth of American life." And our only chance to make our democracy work is as part "of a vital international economy...
...American ideals -- love of freedom, equality of opportunity, self-reliance but also cooperation, together with "all the great principles of Western civilization" -- justice, truth, charity. "It now becomes our time to be the powerhouse from which the ideals spread . . . and do their mysterious work of lifting the life of mankind from the level of the beasts to what the psalmist called a little lower than the angels." Other nations can "survive," but America can endure only if its veins are filled with "the blood of purpose and enterprise and high resolve...