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This week, as Independence Day, 1970, approaches, TIME'S editors feel that the national mood again demands a reappraisal of the meaning of the American flag-the ifs, hows and whys of its present-day symbolism, where it is a unifying and where a divisive force. The country is again at war, not only in Southeast Asia but also against frightening forces within American society...
...rhythms of life−sometimes sweet, more often jerking and spastic−are the raw material this remarkable company plays with. As for words, "Whatever I know, I know it without words," says The Serpent. Tactile and immediate, the Open Theater uncannily reflects the present-day audience−inarticulateness, frustration with words, an instinct to feel rather than explain, a deep nostalgia for a preverbal lost innocence...
Tapestries: the very word conjures up the past−grand, remote, rather faded. Although the art of tapestry weaving is ancient, a number of present-day practitioners are proving that the results can still be new and fresh. France's famous tapestry factories, which date back to the 17th century, today keep a corps of weavers busy turning out bold, flat, colorfully stylized designs by Matisse, Vasarely and Jean...
...district of San Francisco. Don McNeill was a participant-observer of this culture, and he recorded its moments as they were happening, and as they accepted him, without any postmortem analysis or morning-after perspectives, McNeill presents the growing pains of the counter-culture intact and unviolated-the reader is free to judge them for himself against the chaotic results of the present-day aftermath...
...South Africa's 17th century settlers, "going into laager" meant forming a circle with their covered wagons to defend themselves against attacks by native tribes. To their present-day descendants, it means turning increasingly to the repressive strictures of apartheid to protect themselves against the nonwhite majority. Five times since 1948, the electorate has gone into laager by returning the white-supremacist, Boer-dominated Nationalist government to power, each time with increased majorities. Last week, for the first time in 22 years, South Africa's voters took a short step back toward the moderate center...