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Mustering a great deal of valid empirical evidence, and some less valid speculation, Spender explains the movement which, over the past century, led America to eclipse England in its long-held position of literary dominance. What Emerson saw as England's "immense advantage" --that American thoughts really belonged to Europeans--is now America's. England now finds itself being drawn to America for its "contemporary energy," says Spender, in the same way that Americans were drawn to England by the force of the past. Factors that have affected the slow changeover of roles include the Americanization of European literature begun...
...other planets combined, the whirling giant bulges at the middle like the earth, only far more so. Pioneer found that Jupiter's equatorial diameter (88,298 miles) is nearly 6,000 miles greater than the spread between its poles. The data returned by the spacecraft also support the long-held theory that Jupiter is unique among planets: a great ball of whirling gases and liquids with no solid surface. Its outermost 600 miles consist of an atmosphere of hydrogen and helium gases laced with clouds composed of crystals of ammonia, ammonia hydrosulfide and water ice. The rest...
...office is only fair, of course--he must be allowed time to prove himself. Thus, in a now-famous 1968 cartoon for The Washington Post, Herblock captioned an empty barbershop chair, "Everyone who enters this shop receives a clean shave," signaling the suspension of a long-held grudge against incoming President Richard Nixon...
...During his three-day visit, the Chancellor encountered a friendly but firm President. For instance, Nixon confirmed that the new U.S. concept of an Atlantic Charter leaned heavily on an old idea: Washington's long-held belief that political, economic and defense issues should be directly linked together in consideration of U.S.-European partnership. It is an idea that has been strongly resisted by Western Europe, which suspects (with good reason) that the U.S. wants to use European defense needs as leverage to extract trade concessions. Brandt made it perfectly clear to Nixon that Western Europe still opposes...
...academy. For all their differences, what do they have in common? They share a reductive, limited view of man, according to the humanistic psychologists working today, who consider themselves a "third force" knocking at the academy gates. In sociology and anthropology, other challenges are being made to long-held beliefs. The challenges add up to a new regard for human intractability-and potentiality. There is a sneaking reappearance of the old notion that certain fixed elements in man (once unscientifically known as "human nature") are not susceptible to environmental changes. That notion obviously has major political overtones, since traditionally liberalism...