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...rich and populous as the U.S. Then, armed with broad tariff-cutting powers under President Kennedy's Trade Expansion Act, the U.S. was prepared to negotiate with Europe the biggest, boldest liberalization of trade in Western history. From economic partnership, many statesmen believed, would come the political framework of an Atlantic Community. Tired of Concessions. How far this grand design has receded from reality is only now becoming fully apparent. The disintegration started last January, when, as all the world knows, Charles de Gaulle vetoed Britain's admission to the Common Market. But while other members...
...this framework, Paul Brodeur blends psychological insight and historic parallel to create a portrait of the alienated man in the nuclear age. Harry Brace is not merely the familiar figure who feels estranged just from his own society. He wants out of the whole organized world...
...realm of mental relations, truth again is an affair of leading. We relate one abstract idea with another, framing in the end great systems of logical and mathematical truth.... Our ready-made ideal framework for all sorts of possible objects follows from the very structure of out thinking. We can no more play fast and loose with these abstract relations than we can do so with our sense-experiences. They coerce us; we must treat them consistently, whether or not we like the results...
Close to Melville. Nolan describes the framework of his art as "deep space" or "man in an extreme environment." He could just as well be defining the history of Australia itself. Like the U.S. Wild West, Australia's vast mid-continental frontier has been a breeder of legends. And always the theme is man against terrifying odds. It may be drought, heat or the devastating loneliness of an outback town; the protagonist may be a gold digger, convict, explorer or the legendary Aussie bandit, Ned Kelly, defying a continent...
...case of Burgess and Maclean could indeed serve as a topical framework for a fictional dramatization of the rival moral claims of East and West. Why did two members of the British Establishment opt for the enemy in the cold war and turn up in Moscow with denunciations of the civilization that produced them...