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...Soviet Union still has so fantastic a view of U.S. affairs. But taken whimsically the novel view does help explain other puzzling developments in American life. For example, Golfer Lee Trevino's victories in the U.S., Canadian and British Opens are little more than a Mexican-American revolt against the Anglo-Saxon monopolists who have dominated the game. And the nationwide telephone strike is not a worker-boss conflict at all, but an attempt by harried parents to wrest control of the telephone from the teen-age daughters who have so long monopolized the lines...
...book Revolt on the Nile, however, Sadat outlined the intention of the Free Officers Movement to betray Britain to Rommel's Afrika Korps: "We made contact with the Germans' headquarters in Libya, and we acted in complete harmony with them" and "We would join with the Axis troops, and the fate of the British Empire would be sealed...
Considering also Deutscher's studies of Russia, Horowitz shows that the intervention did not stop the revolution itself but did succeed in freezing European revolt. The consequences rebounded back to Russia provoking Stalin's theory of "socialism in one country." In effect, Russia had to rethink completely the role of its revolution: Russia would have to stand alone despite Lenin and Trotsky's earlier admonition against such prospects. Above all, the Russian Revolution succeeded in turning the focus of revolution from industrialized Europe to the third world: the center of imperialism...
...angst can, of course, be another's anger, and there will undoubtedly be those who find the self-absorbed debate carried on within Rosen's essays reprehensible. Equally annoying are his rather glib capsule histories of radical revolt, his tendency to view older generations from a present of incomprehension rather than in the terms of their own historical past, and his occasionally ostentatious display of other writers and their work, which-though it illuminates Rosen's own development-is not really all that necessary...
...worst since World War II. Even so, its true gravity could not be gauged by those factors alone. Precipitated by German Economics Minister Karl Schiller in order to get European agreement on new monetary measures, the upheaval at first seemed artificial and contrived. But it quickly became a pointed revolt against the U.S. dollar, the foundation stone of the whole system of Western finance. For the first time, much of the world, in effect, was asking about the dollar the question that arrogant American tourists sometimes ask about other currencies: "How much is that worth in real money...