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...obstinacy, however, did gain Britain something: the Nine agreed to support a minimum price for oil, possibly $7 per bbl. The costs of producing the North Sea oil are so great that Britain feared any drop in prices would make its stormy offshore fields unprofitable and thereby ruin forever its chances of rising above its current economic problems...
Surprisingly, Spanish art was poor in its American imagery-probably, Honour suggests, because of guilt at the genocidal cruelty of the conquista. Yet the Spanish massacres in South America and Mexico did give a Dutchman one poignant vision of the ruin of Arcadia, which is also the earliest known painting of the New World: Jan Mostaert's West Indian Scene, circa 1542, with its naked Indian tribe defending their pastoral paradise against a phalanx of armored Spaniards...
...result is that some of his stories lack any hold on solid experience. It is not surprising that his most successful stories are those in which he manages to blend a mastery of technique with a thorough knowledge of his subject--as he does in the third story, "Ruin," where he imparts an understanding of human dependence on land and nature in Jamaica with jarring intensity...
...repair the nets, seldom to swim. Our boat belongs to a fleet which still fancies it controls the ocean, but our nets are the old liberal language and theories, which do not catch what we need now to grow; they certainly don't help us to recognize a pervasive ruin which has come quietly down upon the vast suburban sprawl so many of us call home, or to face and find meaning in the fact that many of us were raised there on the spiritual analogue of a dry heave. No wonder our words to one another ride lightly upon...
...life was a succession of such visible labors. When he came to Santa Fe, Lamy faced a diocese of 236,000 sq. mi.-larger than France. A mere dozen Mexican priests were in attendance, some of them living in open concubinage. The neglected adobe churches were crumbling into ruin before their eyes...