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...absent resident of California, I was overwhelmed by the news of Ronald Reagan's victory. The contest pitted vigor and a constructive campaign against a stagnant administration and a campaign based on the destruction of character. My faith has been restored in the "ignorant" voting public-though eight years of education was necessary...
...search for every possible area of agreement that might enlarge, no matter how slightly or how slowly, the prospects for cooperation." Solemnly he declared: "The dogmas and vocabularies of the cold war were enough for one generation. The world must not now founder in the backwaters of old and stagnant passions." Then the President of the U.S. pointedly noted that the war in Viet Nam posed no threat to "the vital interests of the Soviet Union" and "does not have to stop us from finding new ways of dealing with one another." The President spoke barely a week after North...
...cinema, the big beat, and Carnaby Street fashions are conquering the world. But underneath, nearly every observant Briton knows that his nation is in serious trouble. One critic has warned that the scepter'd isle seems ready to "sink giggling into the sea." Author Michael Shanks (The Stagnant Society) says that "the hardheaded (and often hardhearted) millowners and steel masters of the North have bred the little flirts of Chelsea and Kensington. It is gay, it is madly amusing, and it carries with it the smell of death." Few would perhaps put Britain's malaise in such harsh...
Like the Dominican Republic's Balaguer, Méndez faces some heavy historical adds. Since Guatemala's inde pendence in 1847, only one civilian President, Leftist Juan Jose Arévalo (1945-51), has completed his term. Besides an itchy military, Guatemala is also plagued by a stagnant economy and mounting extremist agitation from both right-wing and Communist terrorists. Though Méndez was not talking specific solutions or programs last week, he was confident in the knowledge that he had fully 30 of the new Guatemalan Congress' 55 members on his side...
Asians are villagers, and the village always bowed before the procession of imperial powers as before natural forces -taxed, conscripted, pillaged but holding fast to the status quo by totem and taboo. Karl Marx sneered at "these idyllic village communities" as stagnant and "subjugating man to external circumstances...