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...individual in the modern world-Ibsen's issues are once again the issues of the hour. But as his plays revive so do their somber ambiguities. To assume that the facts of an author's life inevitably illuminate the meaning of his writing is to commit the biographical fallacy; and in this huge biography-the first full portrait done since 1931-Michael Meyer makes that error on a grand scale. Even so, his book is the richest discussion of Ibsen's life and work ever published...
...nonaggression treaty calls for economic, scientific and technological cooperation. Unlike the NATO pact, it does not commit either nation to an armed response in the event of an attack on the other. Western diplomats said its wording compared more with the CENTO and SEATO treaties. It is only the second of its kind between Moscow and any world capital outside the Communist camp, the other being a 15-year treaty signed with Egypt...
...reotyped look at "knapsack nomads" [July 19]. Some of us choose one country in which to spend our vacation with the hope of learning some of the language and meeting some of the local people. We did not come to Europe to meet Amer icans or to commit cultural genocide, as so many American military personnel and tourists do. JOHN B. WILLIAMS III Copenhagen...
...Gulf of Siam to see if reports of oil sources there were accurate. A discovery could help revive the Thai economy, but the government's cumbersome bureaucracy barely seems interested. It has delayed interminably in setting regulations for offshore drilling, and other oil companies are unwilling to commit capital without them. As a result, portable oil rigs, which were destined earlier for Thai offshore exploration, have now been moved to other potential boom spots, notably Indonesia and Malaysia...
...Idea. The idea that the best prescription for cancer is financial is an old one. Mary Lasker, the longtime medical philanthropist, has strenuously urged the nation to commit more of its resources to the search for a cancer cure. She has argued that the National Cancer Institute, an arm of the National Institutes of Health, lacks the means to exploit many of its important findings. Last year Mrs. Lasker picked up some powerful support in Congress when a special commission put forth her favorite proposal: a $6 billion investment in cancer research during the coming decade and creation...