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Last week too, the Nixon party returned from behind the Iron Curtain with a big conclusion that helped put the U.S.S.R. and the cold war into clearer focus: the economic gap between the U.S. and the U.S.S.R. is still enormous. Because that gap strikes the eye hard, visits to the U.S. by Soviet officials work to the U.S.'s advantage. So can the reciprocal visits by U.S. policymakers, who, as they take the measure of the Soviet Union, can shape policies with more accuracy-and, apparently, with far more confidence that the policies are succeeding...
...restoring the concepts of guilt and innocence, punishment and choice, in all their dreadful nobility. Only by forcing the wedge of moral responsibility into our lives and consenting to suffer its risks and pains, can the world be dislodged at all from its absolute "absurdity"; only by acknowledging the gap thereby created between what is and what ought to be, can man still find hope and purpose, be saved from the epidemic in the world ... the look in the eyes of oxen on the country roads." The play gains disturbing relevance of the most immediate sort by taking place among...
...Peyton Rous showed as long ago as 1911 (his findings were unpopular at the time) that one cancer (sarcoma) in chickens is caused and can be transmitted by a virus. Over the years, viruses were found to cause other tumors in birds and lower animals. But the gap between them and man seemed unbridgeable. Then the University of Minnesota's Dr. John J. Bittner showed that breast cancer in certain mice is transmitted by a factor, now accepted as a virus, in mouse mothers' milk. This led to the establishment of mouse "dairies," and the painstaking milking...
Wake Up. Snow suspects that the Russians have judged the situation more sensibly. "They have a deeper insight into the scientific revolution than we have, or than the Americans have; the gap between the cultures doesn't seem to be anything like so wide as with us. One finds that their novelists can assume in their audience-as we cannot-at least a rudimentary acquaintance with what industry is all about . . . An engineer in a Soviet novel is as acceptable, so it seems, as a psychiatrist in an American...
...West has little time to wake up, says Snow. "Closing the gap between our cultures is a necessity in the most abstract intellectual sense as well as in the most practical. When those two senses have grown apart, then no society is going to be able to think with any wisdom. For the sake of the intellectual life ... for the sake of the Western society living precariously rich among the poor, for the sake of the poor who needn't be poor if there is intelligence in the world, it is obligatory for us and the Americans...