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...paradoxical balance of free enterprise and federal supervision, of expansion and conservation, must be maintained in the present America. The President might have been more accurate-if less inspiring-with the words of Novelist Henry James, William's brother: "It's a complex fate being an American." Stefan Kanfer...
Some Americans are old hands at it. Spurred on by Alex Haley's book, others took it up, and now it seems that just about everyone is searching for his roots. "Climbing All Over the Family Trees," this week's Essay by Senior Writer Stefan Kanfer, tells some of the reasons why. "White Roots: Looking for Great-Grandpa" in the Living section tells how to do it-with specific instructions for the beginner. Its author, Senior Writer Michael Demarest, believes passionately in what he calls the "joy of genealogy." But then, to trace the 14 generations...
...Stefan Korbonski Washington...
...workers' cause was championed by the Roman Catholic Church and notably by its revered Primate, Stefan Cardinal Wyszynski. By combining intellectuals, workers and churchmen, the defense movement could become a classic counter-revolutionary force. Still, the Poles' fear of provoking a Soviet invasion is a strong restraining influence. This month the defense movement scored a triumph: Party Chief Edward Gierek yielded to public pressure and promised to recommend clemency for all workers convicted of rioting...
...concludes, "but we have seen many intimations of its coming." Those intimations are reward enough for the Stevens appreciator. By the final chapter the creative act alone remains, as always, unreachable: in Wallace Ste vens' memorable phrase, "the palm at the end of the mind . ' ' Stefan Kanfer...