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...visit Franco and to press for Spain's acceptance into NATO at Brussels, the theory ran that Kissinger felt that making an immediate long-term military agreement with Franco would be more favorable for the U.S. than negotiating one with a new government. But when Kissinger initialed a framework agreement for military bases in Spain early in October he indicated that he wanted the Senate to confirm it--at least in resolution form. This seems to be a delay tactic; Kissinger probably wants to wait until after the shift of power. And sizing up the nature of this shift seems...
...ideology nor an all-encompassing aesthetic theory, Trilling put his main emphasis on a "historical sense" in criticism. He once described his curiosity to know "what at a certain time people liked or demanded in the way of literature and for what cultural and historical reasons." Within that historical framework, he attached considerable importance to literature as a moral phenomenon. He delighted in recalling the day a student told him that George Orwell was "a virtuous...
...includes roughly a thousand people who represent the framework of American authority and substance. A goodly bunch of them came jetting out of Dallas, Beverly Hills, Akron and Cedar Springs, Mich., for ceremony and tribute to Egypt's President Anwar Sadat, our new pal in the Middle East...
...RECENT shakeup of the Ford administration lends itself to a conspiratorial analysis, but not entirely. Attributing ideological motivation to President Ford's appointments and removals and weaving each separate development into a coherent ideological framework demands a lot of contortion; even then, everything doesn't fit. The events do, however, support a less complicated political explanation...
FORD BEGAN HIS SPEECH firmly in the city-as-ideal framework--he called New York the place "through whose Golden Door untold millions have entered this land of liberty"--but was quick and sure about miring the real city in incomprehensible bigness. He spoke of the difficulty of sorting out the truth in "this terribly complex situation," a task that would be made possible only by unadorned "straight talk." His New York is in a "quagmire," with a "stream" of budgets, "massive growth" and "extraordinary increases." Things have gotten out of hand; they have risen out of proportion with...