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...essays first appeared under the elastic title, Our Country and Our Culture, in three issues of the Partisan Review last year. More apt, the new title recognizes the two foci of the symposium: the state of American society, facing the threats of mass culture and a pressure for conformity; and the dilemma of the American intellectual, seeking a place for himself in a cultural context he can no longer flee...
...purpose, "governed by its own traditions and perpetrated by its own rules, yet given a recognized status by a higher authority, must be an unconscious agent for the spread of ideas hostile to all forms of tyranny. No authoritarian state, past, present or future could tolerate for long such foci of anti-totalitarian infection...
History shows that political freedom and economic progress depend upon diffusion of power and multiplication of foci of energy and drive-neither attainable under collectivism...
...probably apocryphal (the doctor is said to have recommended it because Automat vegetables are not overcooked). But Dr. Siegler cites "instances of conception with no therapy directed actually at the reproductive system but following such practices as physical and mental relaxation, separate vacations for husband and wife . . . removal of foci of infection in sinuses, tonsils, and digestive system, correction of anemia...
Starvation, endemic in China, is more acute in war, increases the hazard of epidemics. The Japs have added new plague foci by dropping infected grains of rice and shreds of cloth from planes on plague-clean areas...