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...store's buyer travels to countries asdiverse as India, Indonesia, Czechoslovakia, thePhillipines and China, as well as to a number ofAfrican nations. The buyer's finds--whose pricesstart at around 50 cents--are made of glass,porcelain, gold, silver, wood, plastic andsemi-precious stones in every imaginable shade andcolor...
Diverse though these troubles are, they have some common denominators. The former Soviet republics and satellites that are trying to build capitalist democracies must do so from scratch, with little or no experience in either capitalism or democracy. They are getting precious little help from their cold-war adversaries, who sometimes seem to enforce a double standard. Western governments may, for example, demand that to qualify for aid an ex-communist country reduce its agricultural subsidies to a level well below the largesse that the West showers on its farmers. Worse, in order to keep their countries operating, democratic leaders...
Stories are precious, indispensable. Everyone must have his history, her narrative. You do not know who you are until you possess the imaginative version of yourself. You almost do not exist without it. Blacks were mostly excluded or held in the margins of the national story. As Spike Lee knows, blacks more than other Americans need their stories now, the recovered histories of what they have been and fantasies of what they might be. The American family, as well, desperately needs a new folklore, a new driving myth. The old version, which in caricature is a 1950s suburban setting...
...time Murphy set to preparing, the summer was almost over. Precious little quiet time left for a soon-to-be-busy dean...
...time Murphy set to preparing, the summer was almost over. Precious little quiet time left for a soon-to-be-busy dean...