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...carry on the wholehearted revolutionary struggle, and in order to avoid such a struggle resorts to the tritest, ultra-Marxist-sounding excuses." On a less rarefied plane, the widening split between China and Russia is also much in evidence. Diplomatically, Russia is actively engaged in containing China's expansionist policies and undermining its influence with Asian Communist parties...
...contemporary because they express the golden flowering of two comparable cultures (Western and Middle Eastern). In Western culture (which Spengler regards as entirely separate from Greco-Roman), Cecil John Rhodes's campaign to exploit Africa is made equivalent to Caesar's foray into Gaul. Both mark the start of expansionist drives that Spengter sees as the beginning of the culture's final decline...
...informal report to the Faculty two days ago, McCloskey emphasized at the committee had been unable to agree on the basic question of whether the College enrollment should be raised. But he said yesterday that " the range of disagreement was small"--that not even the most firmly pro-expansionist members of the committee had wanted to enlarge the College by more than 500 undergraduates in the next ten years...
...confining the Agencies to their essential services. But the committee will be helpless unless the HSA management decides voluntarily to heed its wishes, and unless the committee itself decides to concentrate on issues more basic than cracked beer-mugs and scratched rings. The HSA's employment practices, its expansionist tendencies and charges of monopolistic practices all need to be studied, and the HSA must learn to respond to the non-commercial needs of the community. Biographical Calendar vignettes alone will not solve the problem.DUSTIN M. BURKE...
...Soviet Union has challenged the world with a dynamic ideology and an expansionist foreign policy. The United States has responded to this challenge by fighting a rearguard action around the world. It has merely opposed communism . . . Such a policy would seem to be required by the "logic" of the arms race . . . But it is hardly adequate to cope with the real danger of Soviet expansion...