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...great American melting pot-so the theory goes-all ethnic groups lose their distinguishing characteristics and blend into a homogeneous whole. It is the argument of this provocative book that the melting pot has done very little melting. However much these groups may have changed over the years, they have retained their identity. They differ as much as they ever did-and the authors think that it is good that they...
Frightened or not, the officers make Pip doubt the sincerity of his motives, and he pivots on his Achilles' heel right into the officers' ranks. Played out to the anthem of God Save the Queen, the final scene is an ironic blend of parade-ground smartness and mocking bitterness. Pip has been broken, and the conscripts are to be shipped out as clerk fodder. Though Wesker probably intended something more hopeful, his play says in sum that you can't change the bloody upper classes-or the bloody lower classes either...
...LEARNING TREE, by Gordon Parks. Like Author Parks, the hero of this novel grew up in the Negro part of a small town in Kansas. A kind of cross between Tom Sawyer and Native Son, the book is a blend of sunny memories of life in a large, affectionate family and the brooding fears of nameless violence waiting around almost every corner...
...fear of overcrowding its pocket paradise, Liechtenstein (pop. 18,000) has granted citizenship to only a dozen foreigners since 1950, and worries mightily over its rising birth rate. An unsullied blend of lush meadowland and soaring Alpine peaks, the nation nestles so unobtrusively between Austria and Switzerland (since 1924 it has shared currency, customs services and foreign service with the Swiss) that vacationers driving through are often unaware that they are even in Franz Josef's fief. This bothers Liechtenstein's government not at all, for, as Prime Minister Alexander Frick once observed, the sight of idle tourists...
Study After Evensong. Ramsey and his wife Joan (they have no children) live weekdays in Lambeth Palace, the archiepiscopal residence in London across the Thames from Parliament. His life at Lambeth is an almost monastic blend of work and prayer. His day begins with private prayer and Holy Communion in the palace chapel (the archbishop, in Eucharistic vestments, is the celebrant on Tuesdays and Thursdays, receives the Host and chalice from the hand of one of his chaplains on other days) and ends after Evensong and dinner with a long night of reading and study. Most of his archiepiscopal work...