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...also, in many respects, a baffling one. The most prominent guerrilla group, the Patriotic Front headed by Joshua Nkomo and Robert Mugabe, denied responsibility, though most white Rhodesians felt the Front-or some segment of it-was implicated. Blaming guerrillas whom he did not identify, the black Archbishop of Salisbury, the Most Rev. Patrick Chakaipa, called the mass murder "an evil act that makes a mockery of the ideals these people profess to serve." In Rhodesia, as in South Africa, the Catholics have often opposed the ruling white regime but nonetheless have been caught in the crossfire. Only two months...
...most diehard defenders now had to acknowledge that the main "scientific" evidence for high heritability of I.Q. was worthless. The hereditarians have nevertheless continued and even stepped up their activities. In the recent Annual Review of Genetics (1976), a long article on "genetics of cognitive behavior" favorably reviews a segment of the large and growing literature on genetic bases of inequality, and repeatedly attacks Richard Lewontin for his sharp criticisms of the I.Q. studies...
Stoppard laces the proceedings with racy puns, malapropisms and bureaucratese. He scales the evening's comic peak with the interpolated segment called New-Found-Land. Two Foreign Service officers enter the temporarily deserted committee room to discuss an American's application for British naturalization. The elder (Humphrey Davis) is a doddering relict from World War I who embarks on an excruciatingly elongated, hilarious account of how he once secured a cherished ?5 note from Lloyd George. The younger (Jacob Brooke) then launches on a bravura monologue about a train journey across the map of the U.S. that contains...
...united or separated, the French left takes its reform proposals seriously. It does not, like a large segment of the conservative block, bounce from one ad hoc formula to the next, backing the political leader who momentarily seems to project the most appealing image. (The support for Chirac provides one more instance of this inconstancy...
Anthony Flagg's Diary of the New Deal Years is engrossing for different reasons. The longest segment of the book, it painstakingly details a radical braintruster's reactions to the gradual development and stultification of the New Deal, and then America's cautious steps from isolationism to World War II. It is a stunningly realized picture of a brilliant, politically calculating President whose chief skill resides in getting all his various staffers, each in his own way, to serve his turn...