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Before Australia was Australia it was the antipodes, the opposite pole to civilization, an obscure and unimaginable place that was, literally, the end of the world. And before it became a nation, this orphan continent on which European history had left no mark at all became the site of a...
The prospects are excellent because the U.S. trade deficit is so dreadful. From less than $40 billion in 1981, the excess of U.S. imports over exports increased to more than $170 billion last year. Factories are closing, and the growth of the U.S. economy is being stunted. "The record of...
In the U.S., the fear is not of incapacitation but of that dreadful "W" word: Watergate. However, it comes to the same thing. All over Washington last week there was a sickening feeling of "here we go again," a dread of another orgy of public self-flagellation, of deepening public...
And while a better informed and more alert public results from the educational and instructional efforts of the mass media, here too, there are casualties. Some people are confused and frightened by exaggerated reports of new and dreadful diseases; some with untreatable or terminal diseaeses have their hopes raised in...
Lowell and Wilson began arguing about Robert Frost, whom Wilson called a "dreadful old fake." So Lowell immediately telephoned Frost to invite him to the dinner too. "He told Mrs. Frost over the phone that I was a great admirer of Frost's." When the venerable poet arrived at the...