by Andrew Field
Crown, 1986
417 pp. $19.95
by Robert DeMaria, Jr.
Univ. of N.C., 1986
303 pp. $25
by Donald J. Olsen
Yale, 1986
341 pp. $35
by Elliot S. Valenstein
Basic, 1986
338 pp. $19.95
, as Finnish diplomat Max Jakobson observed, emerges "only occasionally and for brief moments above the horizon of international news media.'? Yet Finland, with no more people (4.9 million) than the state of Wisconsin, maintains a unique position on the world scene: a prosperous Western democracy living next door to the Soviet Union. To Americans, says Jakobson, this looks like an Indian rope trick: "a clever thing to do, but not quite believable." Here, Keith W. Olson surveys the...
, as Finnish diplomat Max Jakobson observed, emerges "only occasionally and for brief moments above the horizon of international news media.'? Yet Finland, with no more people (4.9 million) than the state of Wisconsin, maintains a unique position on the world scene: a prosperous Western democracy living next door to the Soviet Union. To Americans, says Jakobson, this looks like an Indian rope trick: "a clever thing to do, but not quite believable." Here, Keith W. Olson surveys the...
's national poet.
Two blocks away, patrons browse through the Academic Book Store. With 12 miles of shelves and a white marble interior, it is one of Europe's largest and most luxurious book outlets. Meanwhile, down at Market Square, at South Harbor, farmers hawk fresh fruits and vegetables under orange canvas tents. Out on the water, red- hulled ferries shuttle tourists and their cars to and from Stockholm, Travemiinde in West Germany, and other Baltic ports.
Nearby, at the Kappeli, a popular...
available to foreigners is second-hand and second-rate," wrote a senior Finnish diplomat two years ago in Foreign A) fairs. "As a result," he continued, "Fin- land is forever at the mercy of the itiner- ant columnist who, after lunch and cocktails in Helsinki, is ready to pro- nounce himself upon the fate of the Finn- ish people."
An English-speaking reader hungering for serious information on contemporary Finnish society soon finds himself on short rations. To be sure,...
onciling faith and reason in his massive Summa Theologica (1265-73), Thomas Aquinas ranks as one of the great thinkers of the eve of the Renaissance, the conservative revolutionary who changed in 40 years the whole intellectual outlook of the Christian world. He pressed for "rational investigation," "discernment of exceptional conditions," and "prudence." Italy's Umberto Eco, semiotics scholar and author of the popular novel The Name of the Rose (1983), offers a lively...
August 1920, the amendment had been ratified 36 states.
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In no other Western nation have organized women tried so hard so often to transform society. American feminists have sought not only to end inequities in voting, employment, property rights, and education, but also to reform men and, on occasion, to move both sexes toward a kind of "gender-blind" regime-goals few Euro- pean feminists have ever contemplated.
Today, after both successes and unexpected failures,...