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...between nations has created the need for a universal language. Yet while economic and cultural exchange has been bilateral, linguistic "dialogue" has been markedly one-sided. French who wish to communicate with Americans must still nearly always do so in English. Parochialism keeps Americans well insulated; most do not possess even a working knowledge of another language, and few have felt any compunction to learn even the metric system, despite its use by nearly every other nation on the ever-shrinking planet...
...little Jew." He steps back into his own character long enough to slap her, twice and very hard. Shuttling between Palestinian enclaves in Lebanon, Charlie realizes that hostile aircraft have become new facts in her life: "It had not occurred to her, in her ignorance, that the Palestinians might possess no planes, or that the Israeli air force might take exception to fervent claims to their territory made within walking distance of their border...
...Soviets to make them comply to our will. This assumes sufficient economic contacts--hardly reality since the downfall of detente--create such leverage. But even granting its existence, certain factors indicate that the economic weapon may not be so lethal. The USSR, despite its staggering economy, does possess an impressive stock of raw materials. Ant the dismal failure of the U.S. grain embargo demonstrates the need for cooperation among the Western allies if economic corrections are to have only success. Future prospects for such cohesion are not great...
Another question left unanswered is that of credibility. How many people outside the U.S. will ignore the irony, of American calls for democracy in light of our government's history of engineering the overthrow of democratically elected governments? Although American citizens possess a notoriously short and often severely abridged sense of history, the governments has acknowledged openly its role in overturning democracy in Iran(1953), Guatemala(1954), and Chile(1973). And the rest of the world has not forgotten...
...best working biographers, was unhappy when he tried his hand at fiction in his Harvard days. "It was not covert or impersonal enough," recalls the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award winner for Mr. Clemens and Mark Twain. But Kaplan's sharply observed lives possess an imaginative drive found in the best tales. Says Kaplan: "It's like a Dickens novel. You get a feeling of the society around the life. And a good narrative...