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...decades at least. Like John Hay and the "Open Door," Welles will be remembered because of slogan that sums up his major accomplishment: the "Good Neighbor" policy. To him is due the credit for opening the battle against dollar diplomacy. If the battle is yet far from won, we owe a debt of respect to the man who challenged not only the dominant forces around him, but also his own background...
...second destructive influence, says Barzun, is the culture boom itself. "Feeling the old attachment to high Art," Barzun sees in the "very abundance and availability of the democratized arts the causes of a prompt dissolution...The powerful devices of mechanical reproduction and high pressure distribution to which we owe the cultural 'awakening' necessarily distort and thus destroy. All the new media make arbitrary demands on the materials fed through them. And because the public to be served is large and failure costly, it is important that the product suit-hence the endless cutting and adapting, reworking and diluting...
...Everything I've done so far I owe to my American schooling," says the head of a major Turkish advertising agency who went to the University of Wisconsin. The story is familiar to Mandayam A. Sreedhar, 35, one of India's most brilliant engineers. What he learned at the universities of Syracuse and Pennsylvania ('53) was warm belief in "the basic American view that two fellows can start a business in a garage and build it into a multimillion-dollar concern. I have never since found it difficult to understand an American...
...appeared unto me in a dream and commissioned me to give myself to prayer.'' He also has a gift for extracting folding money from his slack-jawed listeners: "Friends, is it not right that I should ask you to help support our work? You don't owe us anything. You write me whether you've got any money or not to send. But if you have something that you can send to us to help pay for our broadcast. God will bless you. You enclose your tithe, a little offering, a donation, whatever the Lord lays...
...Trenches. "Everything I am," says Reder, "I owe to Czernowitz," the Ukrainian city where he was born, the son of a Jewish innkeeper. Czernowitz, now Russian but then part of the Austro-Hungarian empire, was a town that thrived on folklore and legend, and even the grim periodic pogroms added to the sense of drama. At 17, Reder was drafted into the Austrian army, spent World War I in the trenches as one of the most wretched and incompetent of privates...