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There is general agreement with Sunday Times Critic John Russell that it represents "inspired conservatism'' rather than the radical departures that were at first feared. But Spence's cathedral-for all its hand-cut blocks and patiently woven icons -is very much of this century. Says Cuthbert Bardsley, the Bishop of Coventry: "Once again, we must express our faith in terms that will be understood by a modern generation...
...present duties on most industrial and farm imports from the U.S.. will be in place by early 1967. Though it is one of the Kennedy Administration's top-priority goals to negotiate bilateral tariff cuts by that date, the recent U.S. decision to raise duties on imported woven carpets and window glass prompted the Common Market to take a step in the opposite direction. Warned the council: unless there is "modification or satisfactory arrangement" of the U.S. tariff boosts, it will slap retaliatory taxes on goods it now buys from...
...trouble with all this is that it's too easy. It does require a certain gift to be able to think of these things, but merely conjuring them up is not enough. The ground must be laid for these occurrences, and their causes must be woven into the story and into the actions of the characters. O'Hara refuses to do this, and thus these stories are pulp-magazine fare...
...have no objections to the way in which the author approaches his job. The scholarship of the work is impeccable; the text is a carefully woven fabric of diplomatic cables, memoranda, personal memoirs and previous historical writings. Ullman's selected bibliography includes well over a hundred titles, not to mention manuscripts, papers and unpublished documents. The chapters follow a careful chronological pattern. The only difficulty with the book is that the reader occasionally loses the main thread of events amidst a welter of seemingly unconnected incidents. He feels as if he were viewing a kaleidoscope--at one moment...
...effect, the Common Market nations have woven all their conflicting patchworks of farm supports and subsidies, quotas and tariffs into a single system that will 1) apply to all members uniformly; 2) gradually bring long-divergent price levels to a Market-wide median; 3) encourage the heavy consumers of farm produce, such as West Germany, to buy within the family from its biggest producers, notably France...