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...first necessity in dealing with East Asia. Fairbank writes, is to break away from the limited viewpoint which our own culture imposes upon us. Fairbank says that we "have to put our message in the terms of the other culture if we want to get it across...
However much Cortazar may remind readers of Poe, Maupassant, and Camus, his cool style and gothic viewpoint make him a unique storyteller. He can induce the kind of chilling unease that strikes like a sound in the night. What is it-a burglar, beast or spectral thing? If it occurs in a Cortazar story, it is likely to be something nameless and decidedly lethal...
Hard Road. For all the public smiles and warm words, the road to Glassboro had been arduous, and at times ridiculous. From Washington's viewpoint, there were at least four powerful arguments against the meeting?the four sterile cold-war Summits during the Eisenhower and Kennedy Administrations, most notably the 1960 Paris meeting that broke up over the U-2 incident as soon as it began, and John Kennedy's unhappy Viennese deadlock with Nikita Khrushchev in 1961. Also, Washington officialdom has a built-in predisposition against high-level meetings without detailed preparation and a concrete agenda. Finally, the Administration...
...question of practicability, the notion has serious weaknesses even in theory. For it appears to depend on an underlying consensus in values and interests that runs directly against the pluralism and freedom which SDSers value so highly. The student radicals believe that meetings should produce a unanimity of viewpoint; yet they also prize a rebellious, strong-willed individualism2
...hope to get more of the French computer market, which grows at the rate of 20% a year. To do so they must win back Charles de Gaulle, who is so dissatisfied with the American solution at Machines Bull that he is approaching the computer business with a different viewpoint. The French government expects to put at least $112 million in its Plan Calcul, which will help small French computer companies to pool know-how in order to cut a bigger Gallic figure in the field. This obviously will mean more competition for Bull and make its comeback that much...