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Languages of Power. Unhappily, the New York Cultural Center has presented Hitler's architecture as if it were unique to Nazism-the swollen granite children of one mad brain. This is the stock liberal ploy of separating Hitler from history for fear of contaminating history itself. In fact, the grandiosity of his architectural fantasy belongs to a whole tradition of visionary architecture, which encompasses idealist architects like the 18th century Frenchmen Boullée and Ledoux as well as the great Italian engraver Piranesi, who saw grandeur in prisons, glory in ruins. (In his memoir, Inside the Third Reich...
...Dismemberment of the Agency for International Development, which now oversees almost all U.S. aid and whose bureaucracy has swollen in inverse proportion to the funding of its programs. It would be replaced by three smaller agencies: the U.S. International Development Corporation, to manage some direct economic assistance as well as humanitarian programs such as disaster relief; the U.S. International Development Institute, to oversee technical assistance such as birth control programs and economic planning; and an as yet undefined authority, presumably responsible directly to the White House, to superintend all foreign economic policies, including trade as well as aid. Nixon...
...cannot. Tyranny, like hell, may not be conquered at all. At least not by us as we are. We have had the life sucked out of us-gigantic blood-swollen ticks sucking at our hearts and heads. The statue with the big torch has burned us to ashes. We can no longer love nor desire nor even hate. We will have to sink back into the clay again in order to form ourselves as men. That's how I will begin. Clay first, then...
...year-old Mrs. Myrtle Joseph of Youngstown, Ohio, was examined by Dr. O. Whitmore Burtner, now of Miami. A bone-marrow test indicated that she suffered from chronic lymphatic leukemia, which was spreading slowly. By 1964, Mrs. Joseph needed regular blood transfusions. Her liver, spleen and lymph nodes became swollen. Then, in May 1967, she wrote a letter to Kathryn Kuhlman asking for her prayers. Within a few days she felt so well that she stopped seeing Dr. Burtner. Alarmed, he asked her to come in for tests. Her marrow, liver, spleen, lymph nodes and white blood cells were normal...
...however, was based almost exclusively on continued world demand for meat and wool. When that demand slackened in the earlier '60s because of competition elsewhere, Uruguay began piling up a trade deficit that reached $12.6 million in 1967, a huge amount by Uruguayan standards. The country's swollen bureaucracy, which employs 21% of the nation's 1,000,000-man work force, became an intolerable burden. To offset the high cost of the welfare state, Uruguay began printing more pesos. In the decade from 1959 to 1969, Uruguay's inflation soared 500%, a runaway rate exceeded...