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...vision abroad of an incorrigibly profligate America led to skepticism about Carter's energy speeches. "I cannot believe Carter," said Thomas Jensen, an Oslo plumber, "until I see his words transformed into results, and that depends on Americans, who waste energy so badly." Vienna's daily Die Presse wrote: "The chances of the Carter plan's success are small because of conflicting interests and the population's clinging to 'the American way of life.'" Unfortunately, European, Asian and other foreign commentators failed to recognize that if Carter realizes his goal of creating an extremely...
Even so, Carter's handling of the mass firings caused Europeans to cluck in wonder. A high-ranking West German Foreign Ministry official asked: "Is this serious, or is this just a great religious exercise for the soul?" Oslo's middle-roading daily Verdens Gang called the Washington situation a "circus" and a "balancing act without a safety net." Concluded London's conservative Daily Mail: "From this side of the Atlantic, Jimmy Carter's frenzied efforts to revive his personal standing with voters before the next presidential election look more like a narcissistic charade than...
Halfway through his victory lap, a spectator handed Sebastian Coe a hazel branch with the Union Jack attached. Holding the flag high, the slender Englishman rounded the track at Bislett Stadium in Oslo, Norway, while more than 16,000 spectators rose to a standing ovation. But it was not until he reached the athletes' reception center, where his fellow competitors applauded him, that Coe understood what the rumpus was about. Said he: "That really made what I did sink in for the first time...
...turned in the second fastest 800 meter in the world last year. Still, no one saw him as any threat to his celebrated countryman Steve Ovett, 23, who until last week was the top-rated miler around. Ovett had cockily predicted that any winner at Oslo would find victory "hollow," because he was not entered. Afterward, he graciously credited Coe with "a superb piece of work...
...master images of 20th century art and literature was the City: the ville tentaculaire, condenser of populations and their unease, republic of anxiety, seedbed of desire. From Edvard Munch's top-hatted masks parading the streets of Oslo to Francis Bacon's pinstriped executives howling like caged baboons, the City secreted images of alienation. To the eye of modernist poetry it got more spectral as one came closer to it, as the capitals of Christendom did for T.S. Eliot in The Waste Land, almost 60 years...