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...pleased to have shaken his hand. As one government official observed at a state banquet in Banda's honor, 'Suddenly South Africa isn't the same any more.' " For South Africa, the Banda visit was a milestone in Prime Minister Balthazar Johannes Vorster's "outward-looking" policy of seeking rapprochement with Black Africa. For Dr. Banda, who is sometimes called "Africa's odd man out," the trip enhanced his chance of receiving a $17 million loan for a new airport...
...this second triangle represents God's creative act calling the world into real existence. The next point is God's revelation of his love to man, with the commandment that man requite that love. Man, in addition to returning God's love, passes that love outward to his fellow man, then to the world around him, thereby redeeming it by turning it to God's greater glory. This redemption forms the final point on the second triangle. Thus the triangle of creation, revelation and redemption, superimposed and inverted over the first, indicates the binding relationship among...
...scene in the cavernous committee room was deceptively calm. Wilbur Mills of Arkansas, chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, was smiling and attentive. The chief witness, Treasury Secretary John Connally, was relaxed and cordial. There was little outward sign that these two wily, vastly experienced politicians were meeting in a head-on clash over the Nixon Administration's top-priority bill, the measure that proposes to share an initial $5 billion a year in federal revenues with the states and cities...
...Times almost perfectly crystallizes Pinter's dramaturgy, is it therefore his best play? That probably depends on how one feels about the direction of his career. Pinter's growth has been a spiral turning inward rather than outward. The question is how far he can pursue his ideal at the center before he meets himself coming back. It has always been part of his artistic courage to pitch his plays at the limits of the minimal and rarefied, and part of his importance is that he can make them work. For all its brilliance, Old Times does seem...
...often spend a week alone at Montauk ("It's like taking your brain out of your head and laundering it"). Dick, too, will take a weekend there alone, wandering among the dunes. A friend calls it "tactful withdrawal." At the same time, both see a wry absurdity in the outward aspects of their marriage. Sometimes they play a talk-show game of their...