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...confrontation between the U.S. and the Soviet Union over Poland has potential global consequences. Indeed the crisis has provided a subtle opening to settle one of the prickliest problems the U.S. faces in its complex dealings with China-the sale of arms to Taiwan...
Coriolanus is Shakespeare's prickliest hero. We first see him berating the Roman plebeians as scum simply because they want some bread for their empty bellies. Next we marvel at the man's un matched valor as he bests the Volscians, sometimes in singlehanded combat. The man of flinty aristocratic pride storms into view when he is honored with the rank of Roman consul, only to be banished when he reviles the tribunes of the commoners instead of currying their favor with mock humility and an ostentatious public display of his battle scars. When he turns against Rome...
Part of the time he was writing his survey, Booker shared quarters with another ex-Neophiliac-and Christianity's prickliest recent convert-Malcolm Muggeridge. The spirit may have been catching. For Booker ends up, rather to his own surprise, preaching a sort of Jungian Christianity. Sitting amid the double rubble-first of the Establishment and now of the anti-Establishment -he looks at all the broken pieces and vainly yearns for some master myth to help put everything together again...
...Prickliest Issue. While Trudeau's victory was largely one of personality rather than party, it was also an endorsement of his stand on Quebec-which is the bitterest and prickliest issue in Canada today. Trudeau advocates a strong Canadian federation. Though he is French-Canadian, he is more firmly opposed to a separate status for Quebec than a number of English-speaking politicians. The new Prime Minister is committed to a policy of spreading the use of French throughout the country and making the French Canadians feel at home outside Quebec. Already, Trudeau is appealing to young Quebecois...
Charles de Gaulle's lordly insistence on playing all the international fields has benefited at least one French organization-Agence France Presse. Working under the umbrella of France's cordial relations with some of the world's prickliest countries, A.P.P. men report from 144 nations and territories outside France. Now that the Reuters man in Peking has been placed under house arrest, A.F.P.'s Jean Vincent and René Flipo are the only Western correspondents left at liberty to roam the streets as they please in search of news. An A.F.P. man reports regularly from Hanoi...