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From John Glenn's simple and elevating faith to the mire and miasma of Tennessee Williams in seven days! Does this shift in TIME's covers illustrate what is wrong in America today...
...each other, had little in common. By their dogged reliance on Panch Shila in the face of Red China's repeated aggressions, said Socialist Leader Asoka Mehta in Parliament, Nehru and Defense Minister Krishna Menon created a false atmosphere of confidence in the Red Chinese and a "miasma of misunderstanding that is even today hindering us and creating a situation of a patient suffering from shock...
...neutralist potentates grandly viewed an effusion of fireworks and ended their meeting in a miasma of self-congratulation. But to the U.S., which has given the nations represented at Belgrade more than $8 billion in aid since 1946, the neutrals' failure of nerve was deeply disappointing. It showed that Khrushchev's callous disregard for the neutrals' feelings had paid off. Big, bad Russia had, in fact, cowed them into appeasement. It also proved that, for all their lofty talk, the neutrals are chiefly committed to the profitable middle way-to preserving their "neutrality," at whatever cost...
...language. With this exception, however, the downtown offerings generally range from pretentious to overtly sheckel-minded. An example of a play with static ideas and superficial newness is Genet's The Balcony, one of off-Broadway's biggest hits. Despite its pretensions of originality, it bogs down in a miasma of unreality and philosophical despair. The play first states that men patronize brothels not for sexual satisfaction, but in order to fulfill self-illusions; to try to translate their dreamworlds into some sort of physical actuality. Genet then projects his whorehouse onto a political plan and asserts that Change...
Occasionally one senses the Faulknerian miasma of decay, of gutted ruins of people and places; but the hints are few, and the meaning of the Faulknerian tragedy--the triumph of Snopesism and vulgarity--is non-existent...