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Nevertheless, such acceptance, with its implicit retreat from the ultimate, long-maintained U.S. goal of German reunification, would undoubtedly be a serious blow to West German morale and allegiance, possibly a strain on the West European alliance, and at least a limited cold-war victory for the Russians. Realism surely demands to know what the U.S. would be getting in return...
...Implicit in the change of plan is the fact that the School will eventually be able to move further into Radcliffe territory. The Radcliffe News Office reported that the Education School has options on Radcliffe land adjacent to the tract it has purchased...
...19th-century liberalism in the appeal for unity and good will where substantive agreement is impossible. Algeria is the one subject on which Camus' patriotic emotions seem to have overwhelmed his lucidity. Even as this is written, the inadequacy of sham solidarity is being made apparent. Yet the values implicit in Camus' appeal are not inconsistent with those of his more dispassionate statements...
...Implicit in the hair-shirt approach is a curiously inverted or disguised condescension. It assumes that the peasant has no tolerance, no appreciation of differences, no standards of hospitality. It assumes that the villager would demand complete conformity to his own mores before he would accept the Peace Corps member as an individual. Both these assumptions are sheer nonsense. The peasant may be illerate, but he is not stupid, and he is as keenly aware as any anthropologist of the social divisions in his own world. He will expect the American teacher to live as a teacher...
Manners prove as disconcerting as malice; the Rhodeses retreat from a few encounters bruised and mystified. Author Maxwell resolves some of these mysteries in an old-fashioned epilogue that chiefly confirms one of the implicit themes of the book: that every cultural contact is something of a cultural clash...