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...efforts of man to solve the basic problems of food, clothing and shelter, Architect Rudofsky heaped scorn. The obsessive concern for time-and labor-saving devices in the kitchen, he said, has turned the U.S. from a "food culture to a dishwasher culture." As for clothes, "we are victims of the brassière erotic." said Rudofsky. "We have lost a religious respect for the dignity of the human body. We squeeze and distort the body, and our clothes are only shaping it." Man is no better prepared to solve the problems of shelter, said Rudofsky. "About a generation...
...sympathizes with Acheson's scorn, but one understands why it was that this "striped-pants diplomat" did not get along very well with Congress
...revolt was not spontaneous but instigated from the outside, reported that army troops had captured 71 well-armed Ghanaian guerrillas fighting alongside the rebels. Rebel leader Holden Roberto, who directs the rebellion from his Leopoldville headquarters, has insisted that his U.P.A. has not had help from Ghana, professes to scorn Nkrumah as too leftist. But Ghana and Guinea have fostered a rival Communist-dominated group called the Movement for the Liberation of Angola (M.P.L.A.), and Nkrumah's meddlesome African Affairs Bureau has openly boasted of its efforts to foment rebellion in Angola...
Except for the Communists, Mrs. Dean admires most of the leaders she writes about; she does not share Time magazine's scorn for Nkrumah and Sukarno, for example. But those she likes best (Bourguiba, Ayub Khan, Nyerere and Betancourt) are the non-ideaologues who are more concerned with social and economic achievement than with abstract principles. The necessities of conditions in these emerging nations, Mrs. Dean argues, have imposed certain pragmatic responses which Western democrats may find difficult to accept, yet the West must accept them if it is to learn to live with the underdeveloped world. First, most...
From Japan to Britain, radios had reported the gathering tension at Canaveral, the blast-off and the brief, successful flight. Congratulatory messages poured in from the world's capitals. Few foreigners shared the cool scorn of the Parisian who growled: "The Americans are crazy, and the Russians are crazy, too." Nor did anyone west of the Iron Curtain echo Radio Prague, which called Shepard's flight "scientifically primitive." In Europe and the U.S. most space spectators agreed with Leonard J. Carter, secretary of the British Interplanetary Society: "The Americans had the right way of doing it. Unlike...