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...whole continent. It is hardly necessary to recall the case of Fidel Castro, whom Washington pushed toward Moscow (or to whom, at least, the U.S. gave the pretext for falling into Soviet arms). Without firing a shot, the Soviet Union obtained what Napoleon III in the 19th century and Wilhelm II in the 20th could not: a political and military base in the Americas...
...great composers of the day, among them Strauss, Tchaikovsky and Grieg. His successor Arthur Nikisch, who led the Philharmonic from 1895 to 1922, inspired a rapturous comment from the demanding Tchaikovsky. "He doesn't conduct," said the composer. "He seems to surrender himself to some mysterious magic force." Wilhelm Furtwängler instilled in the orchestra a sense of musical adventure, leading mercurial performances that unfolded with an unsurpassed sense of discovery for some 30 years...
Although West Germany's Communist Party has only 40,000 members, many of its members are professional organizers. Says the West German Interior Ministry's Wilhelm Bracht: "Pacifists in the movement are idealistically committed to the cause, but their families and jobs set limits to their mobility. Many Communists have the time to do nothing but demonstrate. They also have the money." Much of the funding for peace comes from East Germany as part of Moscow's overall peace offensive in Western Europe. West German pacifists are invited to Moscow on all-expenses-paid trips to attend...
...money. He goes out of his way to document his assertions, sometimes slapping seven different sources onto one sentence, as if to say "See, it isn't only me who feels this way." Among his 444 sources are a lot of counter-culture authorities like Wilhelm Reich and other fringe types who rely on each other for corroboration and consequently get discarded en masse, but Wilber also anchors his theory with some powerful ideas from the safe thinkers, such as Freud, Levi-Straus, Durkheim, Chomsky and that old mystic. Hegel Wilber's grasp on the bannister of western social science...
...exist except as a concept, a cosmic wisp of possibility. How people view it can make big differences. What befalls society around the bend in the river will not come hurtling out of space (weather excepted) but will have arisen out of today. "The present," as Philosopher Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz put it, "is pregnant with the future." The highest prudence consists not of looking ahead but of giving the best care to the burgeoning and, for better or worse, fruitful moment at hand. -By Frank Trippett