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...theater and myth. The South American Tupinamba tribe would take a prisoner of war, make him consort with a woman of their tribe, then allow the woman to bear a child so that they could increase the tragedy by slaughtering both the prisoner and his baby. Sometimes in New Zealand, when a chieftain was killed during a war between two tribes, hostilities were broken off while the body of the leader was chopped up by his opponents, roasted and devoured. Among the southern Slavs a mother has been known to ay her infant son down in the cradle to sleep...
Mansfield's life was an even more ill-matched jumble than her work. The daughter of a prosperous New Zealand business leader, she had "gone every sort of hog since she was 17," as Virginia Woolf put it. That included a string of lesbian as well as heterosexual affairs, a pregnancy and miscarriage and a bizarre episode in which she married a singer whom she had known for three weeks, then abandoned him on their wedding night. In her first eight years in England she had 29 postal addresses, not counting excursions to Europe. She compartmentalized her life, playing...
...subject, to be replaced by transnational organizations and a "planetary consciousness." As proof, Toffler cites the hot flames of--nationalism. In Corsica, in Scotland, in Wales, Cornwall, Essex, Belgium, Switzerland, the Sudetenland, the South Tyrol, Austria, the Basques and Catalan, Quebec, Western Australia, the South Island of New Zealand, even Puerto Rico, Alaska and the Pacific Northwest, patriots are going their separatist ways, he says. Some, perhaps those who reset their watches every spring with an easy conscience, might protest that this proves Toffler wrong, demonstrating that nation-states, far from extinction, are likely only to multiply. Instead, Toffler says...
...those areas of the globe that they no longer consider good credit risks. Reports TIME'S European economic correspondent Friedel Ungeheuer from Brussels: "In black Africa, no nation with the possible exception of Nigeria, an oil exporter, is still considered a good credit bet. Apart from Singapore, New Zealand, Australia, Taiwan, and Malaysia, all of the Far East is out. In South America, only Brazil and Venezuela, another major oil producer, can still count on jumbo loans. For most of the developing world, the borrowing spree is just about over...
Publicly or privately, 30 nations now support Carter, including Britain, Japan, Canada, Australia and New Zealand. West Germany and a score more are leaning toward the U.S. position. Said Douglas Kurd, Minister of State at the British Foreign Office: "The I.O.C. is not living in the real world...