Word: riche
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Such an approach could also be called common sense, and it is this common sense which makes Atwood's insights so accessible and simultaneously so rich. Time after time, the reader's jolt of recognition and pleasure comes from one simple fact: Atwood expresses herself so well. As with her novels, one reads her essays with a pen nearby, constantly jotting down some spark of truth: she offers several epigrams. "Canadian-Arherican Relations Surviving the Eighties" (1981) contains the following aside...
CARL WEBSTER of the Harvard-MIT Research Group devises international worst-case scenarios. His best to date is called GULFSCENE III, in which Pakistan and India put aside centuries of animosity and join forces to conquer the oil-rich southern coast of the Pesian Gulf. Bored with life in Cambridge, Webster allows himself to be captured by the Paks so he can implement the plan. Soon the CIA gets into the act, as well as a Capitol Hill headline-seeker, a KGB mole in the White House, and an ex-leftist ex-CIA agent "with eyes like faded blueberry stains...
Bulliet traveled to the area to research the book, which is replete with vivid little descriptions of American lushes in "dry" Saudi Arabia, of rebels in Afghanistan, of rich Europeans in Abu Dhabi. But this is the stuff that's easy to write. More impressive is the author's ability to portray everday American life in an entertaining manner. There is a Harvard secretary who moonlights as an amateur detective until she meets a real one. There is the aggressive Congressional aide who draws a little dagger next to the name of the CIA official his boss is about...
...solution to Third World problems suggested by Bauer represents a unique vision of less developed nations. While most development thinkers regard the effects of economic relations between rich and poor nations as a mixed bag, Bauer views the role of trade through rose-colored glasses. For him, the Third World ought to be thankful for the role the West has played in pulling it out of the stone age. He dismisses foreign aid by rich nations as guilt offerings for a crime they did not commit, and characterizes Third World groups generally as parasites organized to such dry their former...
Bauer also refuses to acknowledge, that his economic policies could have unfortunate social consequences. Nations which have followed the agricultural product or raw-material based path that he advocates have often found themselves with repressive political systems needed to maintain societies in which there are few rich and many poor. Overly careful adherence to Adam Smith often Produces Anastasia Somoza...