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English at Boston University, contends that Dickens' landscape writing improved greatly during his career. His increasing interest in nature paralleled his growing concern with psychology.
The country settings of Oliver Twist (1838) offer a brief respite from the gritty, teeming urban environment that dominates the novel. But Dickens' countryside seems drawn from a fairy tale, with Oliver spend- ing his time picking wildflowers "for the embellishment of the breakfast-table"...
an "economic miracle" that has produced the world's 18th highest per capita GNP (behind Japan, ahead of Britain).
Naimark argues that Communist Party chief Erich Honecker's goals of creating a distinct East German sense of nationalism and of winning popular loyalty remain remote. Communist control depends largely on force-the sealed Western border, the Berlin Wall, and the 1.2 million Soviet and East German troops and policemen inside the GDR. Dis- satisfaction with the regime is widespread...
Peter Prewar Japan DUUS and Daniel I. Okimoto, in Journal of Asian Studies (Nov. 1979), Association for Asian Studies, 1 Lane Hall, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Mich. 48109.
"Fascist," with its overtones of racism and repression, is a word often used to describe Japan just before World War 11. It is a word wrongly used, say Duus and Okimoto, Asia specialists at Stanford.
The mass movements, personality cults, and bloody purges that marked fascism in Germany, Italy, and Hungary...
Peter Prewar Japan DUUS and Daniel I. Okimoto, in Journal of Asian Studies (Nov. 1979), Association for Asian Studies, 1 Lane Hall, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Mich. 48109.
"Fascist," with its overtones of racism and repression, is a word often used to describe Japan just before World War 11. It is a word wrongly used, say Duus and Okimoto, Asia specialists at Stanford.
The mass movements, personality cults, and bloody purges that marked fascism in Germany, Italy, and Hungary...
the year 2000, Australia is expected to ship 136 million tons of coal abroad, surpassing the United States as the world's leading exporter.
The half million tons of uranium oxide discovered in Australia since 1970 represent about 20 percent of known world reserves. During 1972-75, Prime Minister Gough Whitlam's Labor government blocked most mining and prevented exports. Both aboriginies and most labor unions shared his concerns over environmental and safety hazards. But Liberal Malcolm Fraser,...
the 1890s, the Alliance persuaded the Kajar Shah to order a halt to all mistreatment and discrimination. But then the monarchy had little control over the clergy or local authorities. It was not until the last Shah's father, Reza Pahlavi, began a new dynasty in 1925 that religious tolerance became the law, strictly enforced.
Looking Beyond 'Disunity Africa Africa" by Anthony J.
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Dick Kirschten, in National Journal (Nov.Rebellion 17, 1979), 1730 M St. N.W., Washington,
D.C. 20036.
In a move designed to provoke a court test, the Nevada legislature last July laid claim to 49 million acres of rich and scenic federal land- about 87 percent of the state's territory. Politicians in California, Utah, Idaho, and other Western states threaten to follow suit as they rail against "greenhorn bureaucrats" who are "riding roughshod" over their rights.
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Fred I. Greens-tein, in Political Science Quarterly (Winter 1979/80), 2852 Broadway, New York,
N.Y. 10025.
The conventional portrait of Dwight Eisenhower as a President "more attentive to golf than to government" is pure fiction, says Greenstein, a political scientist at Princeton. Newly released documents at the Eisenhower Library show the wide scope of Eisenhower's "hidden hand leaders hi^."
Eisenhower's critics often accuse him of abdicating too much policymaking power...
one in- dividual. He preferred to conserve his "public prestige" appearing to remain above the political fray (unlike Presidents Kennedy and Johnson, says Greenstein, who "sought to enhance their professional reputations as political operators"). The advantage of Eisenhower's low-key approach may be that it avoided "raising expectations about what the President as an individual can ever accomplish."
The Future of 'An S.O.S. For Revenue Sharing" by Richard P. Nathan,...
Howard L. Reiter, in Public Opinion Quarterly (FallNan-Voter 1979), Elsevier North Holland, 52 Van-
derbilt Ave., New York, N.Y. 10017.
There has been a steady decline in the proportion of eligible voters who cast their ballots in U.S. presidential elections-down from 62.8 per- cent of the electorate in 1960 to 54.4 percent in 1976. Alienation due to the Vietnam War, the recent enfranchisement of 18-to-20-year-olds, and the growing numbers of eligible voters 70 years of age and older have all...