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...united by those ideals--there has, for instance, never been a powerful socialist movement in this nation--but also divided by them, or so Huntington insists--that is the central message of his book, the reason why political turbulence is a guaranteed American phenomenon. Though we share the same goals, we do not always agree on the success of our system in reaching them. Indeed, Huntington argues, to the degree that a government must govern, it will always fall short of the absolutes: certainly it will never be able to erase the continuing suspicions about government power. This gap between...
...percentage of aid supplied to Kampuchea by the entire Communist world is declining. Since October 1979, 488 million has been provided by the Soviet bloc. Last year the total was $103 million, and only five socialist countries-mainly the Soviet Union and East Germany-contributed at all. By comparison, 50 non-Communist donor nations to the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) sent $190 million in relief aid to Kampuchea...
...tried to coax him into reading a book. He snapped: "I've been selected a model worker every year without reading books and newspapers!" That did it. She rushed to the nearest court and filed for divorce. After much publicity and a judge's stern lecture on socialist morality, Yu won her case, in effect on grounds of incompatibility. Said Yu, piously: "To continue a marriage without love is utterly immoral...
Here is Evelyn Waugh, "extraordinarily like a loquacious woman, with dinner jacket cut like maternity gown to hide his bulging stomach . . . playing this part of a crochety old character rather deaf, cupping his ear - 'feller's a bit of a Socialist I suspect.' Amusing for about a quarter of an hour." Here is Graham Greene delighted when a bomb from the blitz hits his house, symbolizing not only the end of his estate, but of his marriage; Arthur Koestler, "all antennae and no head," and Novelist Rose Macaulay "looking immensely aged, everything about her having diminished except...
...short, Böll, like the ancient Chinese philosophers, continues to worry about the world before the world worries about itself. He is passionate, biting and not always consistent. Böll, 64, survived the Russian front to write stories and novels of war protest. As a Catholic with socialist ideals, he took a sardonic view of Germany's "economic miracle." Later, his position on violent urban radicals was less severe than one might have expected from an author with pacifist leanings...