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...coverage he wanted: "A few sharp victories, some conspicuous acts of personal bravery on the Patriot side, and a colourful entry into the capital." Such was the quality of African reportage half a century ago, as described by Novelist Evelyn Waugh in his hilarious classic Scoop. To officials of modern-day African nations, as well as those of other developing countries of the so-called Third World, not enough has changed since Waugh's day. Western coverage of their affairs, they complain, is cursory, colored by colonialist idioms and preoccupied with corruption, political turmoil and natural disaster...
...continuities rather than the disruptions of history. While never denying the importance or the achievements of the Chinese communist revolution, Fairbank has also pointed out in lecture, students say, that the communists' current debate over whether to wage an economic or a social revolution is only a modern-day version of a debate that has been going on among Chinese for centuries. More than a decade after the end of the McCarran Committee investigations, Fairbank is reported to have told a group of young China-language foreign service officers not to be too confident about the political freedom...
...then Cambridge's fiery Mayor Alfred E. Vellucci got into the debate, and the fight was on. Some critics of the gene-splicing research argued that it could create new--and dangerous--organisms, while others said it marked the first major step toward genetic engineering, eliciting fears of modern-day Dr. Frankensteins...
FROST GETS high marks for his interviewing. Nixon got $600,000 plus a lot more, when all the rights are in. More important he got a chance to try to exonerate himself, or at least present himself as a tragic figure, a modern-day Caligula. "I brought myself down. I gave 'em a sword. And they stuck it in, and twisted it with relish." So even if he is guilty--and Nixon never admitted that for an instant--at least, he claims, he's a hero. But Nixon's analogy is faulty: Caligula was trapped by life and a personal...
...alone for a long time, trying to reconcile my life and thoughts with the lives these people are leading. A newspaper article, glued in the scrap book, called them "modern-day pioneers" --a condescending label that nonetheless contains an element of truth. When I left the house, I crossed the stream, walking over to the barn in search of a cousin. There I met Bessie, who kindly permited me, an awkward novice, to milk her. After the ceremony was over, I washed up in the fresh stream water heated on the stove, and drove into the town to meet Annie...