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...Neither selfless love nor old-fashioned romantic love gets much of a chance in these stories. Their themes can be banal, as in He, which has a pathetic and overworked English shrew driving her husband into the arms of another woman but wanting him back at any cost. Sometimes the habit becomes just plain infidelity, as in Getting Off the Altitude. In A Mild Attack of Locusts, the habit turns into love of the land, even when the African locusts make the land a crushing burden. A female leftist in The Day Stalin Died has the party habit...
Soviet aid. bragged Nikita Khrushchev during Nasser's visit to Moscow last month, is "peace-loving, selfless sharing" -and unlike U.S. aid, always offered "without strings.'' But last week the tugging of Russian strings was visible for all to see in every uncommitted capital of the world...
...denounced the Russian action as an "entirely unilateral cancellation of valid economic agreements, in glaring contradiction with established standards of international relations," and hinted that it might be "compelled" to demand damages for breach of contract. But its only real recourse was to let the world see what a "selfless sharing" benefactor Moscow...
Toasting "our dear guest" as a "national hero," Khrushchev proclaimed: "Ours is a peace-loving, selfless policy. We give to help the people of the Middle East. We want only one thing: consolidation of the position achieved by the Arab peoples." Replying, Nasser reviewed his old line against "imperialism" and "treacherous aggression," thanking his hosts for "your support and your ultimatum, factors which upheld freedom and morale" in the Suez showdown...
What would happen, asks Lewis, if space travelers from earth discover an unfallen race? "At first, to be sure, they'd have a grand time jeering at, duping and exploiting its innocence; but I doubt if our half-animal cunning would long be a match for godlike wisdom, selfless valor and perfect unanimity." Still, "against them we shall, if we can, commit all the crimes we have already committed against creatures certainly human but differing from us in features and pigmentation; and the starry heavens will become an object . . . of intolerable guilt." Earth missionaries might try to force...