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...complicity of the west in Portugal's colonial legacy and in assisting the white minority regimes in Southern Africa has been long, invidious and well-documented. Soviet aims for establishing its own sphere of influence in this region pose an unfamiliar menace, but one which is the principal issue to be reckoned with in the present Angolan conflict. As MPLA's ambitious benefactor, the Soviet Union saw forcing a military solution as a means of boosting the movement's dwindling influence, preventing a humiliating display at the polls and asserting Soviet control over this area of Africa. Many well-intentioned...
INTERESTING AND AMUSING as this sort of anthology can be, there is in the end a feeling of dissatisfaction. You suspect that it is more a creation of the publisher than the author. A potpourri of reviews whose topics are unfamiliar, of speeches never heard, can become repetitive. There is no overall conception, no theme, no characterization, so that the reader is deprived of the interest which comes when a book is creatively unified. Writing in The New Yorker pampers the trite, and even a writer as versatile as Updike often caters to a readership which can interest itself...
...Italian, a German and two Oriental women, none of whom has any language in common with the others. Nor, it turns out, does their late-arriving teacher, Debbie Wastba (Diane Keaton), have anything but pantomime and a feverish determination to fall back upon as she goes about her unfamiliar duties (she is certified as an instructor in business administration...
...grim joke, but as a serious "consciousness-raising" project to make people aware of the hazardous side of the nation's infatuation with horticulture. Last year at least 12,000 Americans were poisoned by plants, some of them fatally. Most of these cases stemmed not from rare, unfamiliar species, but from such garden-variety types as the poinsettia, holly, mistletoe, wisteria and even rhubarb...
Hence the big machines, like The Hay Wain. Hence, too, an unfamiliar - be cause privately owned - masterpiece, Salisbury Cathedral, from the Meadows, c. 1831. In the afterstorm light, the spire and facade of the cathedral show silver against slate roof, and the clouds are like marble. The cathedral sits inside the rainbow's curve as though in a proscenium arch. Then one sees how every element (building, rainbow, sky, the tree on the left and the cart) is linked by one startling device: the tree, turning on the hub of the cartwheel like an immense brush, seems to have...