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...Mediterranean, a place of serene blue skies for many, has been an object of ambition to an important few. The eight pages of maps that follow show the restless flow of conquest across this ancient sea: the days when it was Rome's mare nostrum, then Islam's crescent empire, at last the shared hegemony of three great empires-British, French and Ottoman. Now once again it is a fragmented place; there is no peace; and the Mediterranean is again the center of history and the clashing of rival ambitions...
...fashioned virtues as duty and responsibility. His book of essays, Beyond the Dreams of Avarice, ranges in subject matter from censorship to the ugliness of British welfare-state housing, but it has a sense of unity nevertheless. Kirk has a line and it is simply this: no political nostrum can cope with the unease of modern life. Modern man must keep what is best from the past and leaven it with personal integrity and a belief...
...well remember," he wrote in his autobiography, "that when the time came to part [from Harrow], tears came to my eyes." Moving on to Cambridge, where he specialized in chemistry, botany and geology, Nehru along with many of his British contemporaries acquired a faith in science as the universal nostrum. "Those were the days," recalls one of Nehru's English friends, "when Socialism was a pretty vague thing. Earnest young men at Oxford and Cambridge talked ethics, politics and economics in the same breath, without knowing exactly what they wanted...
...indictment of the French voter was not that he was politically indifferent: he was if anything too insistent on disagreeing with his neighbors. And in this he was helped by that old political nostrum, proportional representation, which encourages as many parties as there are disagreements. Proportional representation, and the resulting multiplicity of parties, registered accurately Frenchmen's differences and their deep distrust of one another. But it failed in the primary object of the democratic process-discovering areas of agreement...
...Going to Pot." The soil-bank plan, Benson warned his fellow Republicans, is "no nostrum." He called it a constructive "move in the direction we must go with a many-sided program." Indications of the pressure on Benson were evident enough last week, when hog prices dropped to the lowest point in 14 years, and U.S. farm economists met in Washington for an annual "outlook" conference that expressed much long-range confidence but brought little news of immediate cheer. For 1956, they foresaw a continued cost-price squeeze, though not so serious a one as the 10% farm decline...