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...ROLE IN THE MIDDLE EAST. The U.S. has gained influence in the Middle East−but with troubles. How much did the American taxpayer pay for this mini-step? How much will he have to pay? The Americans have committed themselves to the same historical mistake they made in Viet Nam, when they started with consultants and experts and ended up with more than a half million men. When we went to the United Nations last autumn, we went looking for the support of all peoples, including the U.S. It is very unfortunate that the U.S. sees only the Israeli...
...mileage (roughly 38 m.p.g. on the highway) class as Volkswagen's Rabbit. Ford last week announced that it would rush a minicar entry of its own Into production in Europe in time to reach the U.S. market in 1977. Chrysler plans to enter the mini field by 1980 with a front-wheel drive model, probably based on the car made by its French subsidiary, Simca...
...Mini-Anthology. Warren darkly foresees such art becoming ever more subversive in a brave new technology. Artists will be pariahs, ministering to the few who can recall the significance of democracy. This prediction smacks of the ivory tower. American artists have always felt more isolated than they really were. Though it has not always understood them, the U.S. middle class has in fact lionized its writers. As for American painters and sculptors, it is now impossible for them to épater les bourgeois. Today the bourgeoisie vie with each other for possession of the most avant-garde gesture. Given this...
Still, his thoughts about the abrasions of the individual are valid and troubling: "We are driving," observes Warren, "toward the destruction of the very assumption on which our nation is founded." His use of American literature to buttress this charge creates an inspired mini-anthology. By the book's close, Warren's defense of art becomes an antidote to the despondency he professes. Amid all the euphoria of the Bicentennial, this small volume concludes with a sharp, and, in the deepest sense, patriotic note...
...vacation and a different kind of intellectual experience, an exposure to good minds and a chance to explore subjects you can't in the normal course of life." Alfred Moellering, 48, a judge in Fort Wayne, Ind., his wife and two children enrolled in the one-week mini-university at Indiana University for each of the past three years; this summer the adults studied political science and the arts while the children were busy with a recreation program of their own. "The whole family is enthusiastic about it," says Moellering. "It doesn't happen very often that...