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That guy, again, after he confessed that his real name was Hugh G. Rection...
...Past. Manheim, who has translated Proust's letters, says, "The first translator, C.K. Scott Moncrieff, was a little awkward and a little mistaken, but he did a "marvelous job. Now Terence Kilmartin has altered Moncrieff, and not well." Manheim is most derisive about one Kilmartin method of cor rection: "The way he fixed up a passage was to leave it in French. Problem solved...
Three kinds of people, Huan says, do not like China's new di rection. "First, the wooden heads- they cannot accept any change. Second, those who have been poisoned by their former training- they don't know how to change. Third, those who are too enthusiastic- they go to the other extreme " Concludes Huan: "There will be a fight between the modern and the traditional in China. But the man who persists in the old ideas will not survive. We are inventing a completely new experiment. How far can we go? That is the question...
...short, the U.S. does well by doing good. What is needed is a reorganization of the aid program in order to centralize its di rection, clarify its aims and display to the U.S. people that its lofty missions can produce down-to-earth results. As the early reaction to Carter's multibillion-dollar pledge in the Middle East showed last week, the nation is willing enough to assist other peoples if there is a reasonable promise that the investment will produce political or humanitarian benefits. -Frank Trippett
...should be no investment large enough to enable a foreigner to dic tate policy in U.S. defense industries or in transportation, tele vision networks and other communications industries. The problem for Congress is to meld somehow the interests of OPEC investors and the American desire to maintain unquestioned di rection of sensitive industries...