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...fine universities in Hong Kong, or at those in Taiwan? Or, to bring a like point to bear back home, could not Harvard fund its East Asian programs more fully through American sources, and thereby both (1) leave Asian resources for Asian programs, and (2) draw a wider cross-section of American philanthropists, business leaders, and enterprise into Asia related programs, and thus perhaps fulfill a broader, and much needed, educational purpose? (As a top economic power, Japan is of course something of an exception to the foregoing rough line of reasoning, a line prompted rather by the pledges coming...
...market. It prospered in the late 1950s by bringing out the first U.S. compact, the Rambler, but then lost much of its market share when General Motors, Ford and Chrysler started making compacts too. In the mid-1960s it tried to compete against the Big Three by offering a wider range of car sizes and lost disastrously. In 1970 A.M.C. again anticipated public taste by introducing the first U.S. subcompact, the Gremlin, and by 1973 profits were boosted to $44.5 million...
...prophetic summary of the modern temper; small wonder that Wallace Stevens wrote of Baudelaire, "His stanzas hang like hives in hell." It is to be hoped that Alex de Jonge's book will help to dispel the poet's legend and resurrect his verse for a wider audience. But that hope, too, may be a drug. In which case, Baudelaire still wins, screaming over the gulf of a century: "Hypocrite lecteur-mon semblable -mon frère!" (Hypocrite reader-my double-my brother!). Melvin Maddocks
...school busing, now run afterschool athletic programs. Luxury apartments and a hotel may be built near the places where motorcycle cops once roared into angry crowds to separate blacks and whites. "I feel hopeful about the city," said Jerry Carey, a white social worker. "There is, overall, less paranoia, wider horizons...
...World dilemmas of our next century. Will we be able to continue to enrich our lives with the ancient and durable treasures, to enjoy our in heritance from our nation's founders, while the winds of obsolescence blow about us and while we enjoy the delights of ever wider sharing? Will we be able to share the exploring spirit, reach for the unknown, enjoy the multiplication of our wants, live in a world whose rhetoric is advertising, whose standard of living has become its morality - yet avoid the delusions of Utopia and live a life within satisfying limits...