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...Soviet bloc during the Czech crisis. Despite their loud and somewhat successful denunciation and protest against the Vietnamese war, the vast majority of the members of the Democratic left maintained a stony silence in the aftermath of the tragedy in Prague. A truly democratic left should bring its weight to bear equally against the wrongs of the right and the extreme left. Perhaps it is surprising to learn that the Soviet Union, which represents itself as free, can commit the same acts of aggression in Czechoslovakia as the U.S., which also claims it is free, does in Asia...
What Africa needs is precisely such transmutations of tribal loyalties to the larger loyalties of nationhood. The task is formidable, and not only because of the weight of tradition. In many ways, as M.I.T. Professor Harold Isaacs points out, "Africa is the most inhospitable of the major continents to human existence." For all the image of a banana-tree civilization, with food for the reaching, most Africans are permanently undernourished and physically below par or diseased. Life expectancy is barely 40 years at best. Illiteracy is the highest in the world...
Literacy Through Penance. A Marxist revolution can hardly represent the Christian ideal. Just as obviously, inertia is no answer to Catholicism's chal lenges today. A sensible middle way would see the church lending its weight to nonviolent reform-as Chilean Theo logian Hernan Larrain puts it, "Christianizing the inevitable revolution." In a few areas, Catholicism has had the time and talent to do so. In Venezuela, for example, the clergy has helped cut illiteracy from 50% to 12% in the past decade. One shrewd but practical way of accomplishing this was to require penitents to teach illiterates...
Balancing Dissonance. The reason, perhaps, was that Vuillard never probed his sitter's secrets. As if telling too much about his subjects might embarrass them, he set them in surroundings they loved and gave both equal weight in the painting. Harmony was his aim. His success in balancing dissonant colors is demonstrated in the blending of 20 or more patterns in The Music Recital...
...read the fortunetelling card her husband got from a penny weighing machine. 'You are a leader she read, 'with a magnetic personality and strong character-intelligent, witty and attractive to the opposite sex.' Then she turned the card over and added, 'It has your weight wrong...