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Such passions are not unknown elsewhere, from Cyprus to the Arab-Israeli frontier to the Congo. But in intensity and in the numbers of people they embroil, Asia's hostilities are the world's most serious and in many ways most troubling to the U.S., which now must consider Asia its foremost foreign-policy problem. These quarrels sadly refute the Gandhian view that Asian spiritualism is superior to the rationalism of the West. Gandhi liked to call for spiritual tranquillity. "Virtue," he preached, "lies in being absorbed in one's prayers in the presence...
...colleges consider outright patronage of the artist as their proper role, openly subsidize the artist's work. Of the relatively unknown but promising Niccolò Tucci, Columbia's Writing Program Chairman John Humphries explains: "It is not a question of what Mr. Tucci can do for us, but what we can do for Mr. Tucci." Wesleyan once discovered that an artist can be given too much freedom: one famed visitor spent his subsidized time preparing lecture notes for high-priced delivery at another university...
...optimistic," said lacrosse coach Bruce Munro, "we've got some good people out here. But the performance of the team as a whole is untried, untested, and unknown...
Cukurs was mentioned several times at the Nürnberg trials as a relatively minor but extremely vicious Nazi executioner in Latvia. Because his whereabouts was unknown, he was never formally charged. Yet current German and Israeli governments and private Jewish organizations, such as the Federation of Jewish Communities, have a full file on him. On July 4, 1941, according to the federation, he ordered 300 Jews locked in a synagogue in Riga, then set it afire. A few weeks later, he ordered the drowning of 1,200 Jews in a lake at Kuldiga. And on November 30, 1941, says...
This new bull market for writing talent is not concerned with literary values, and it is even less interested in giving a leg up to the worthy unknown. The paperbacks are magnetized by dollar success. The product they want is the writer who has already established himself at the far end of the slow, heavily edited and thoroughly disciplined route provided by hard-cover publishing houses. But once such a man has arrived, the paperbacks will buy him-and they are currently willing and able to pay nearly any price...