Category: Social change

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A City’s Style

Rouen – William the Conqueror returned to Rouen to die. Joan of Arc was condemned and burned here. Along the medieval twisting of its cobbled streets, Rouen looks very much a part of its past. The harbor, too, is still the junction of Seine River

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Yugoslavia – The Politics of Culture

Belgrade, Yugoslavia   December 20, 1969 Dushan Ludvig in Borba These have been trying months for freedom in Yugoslavia. Many liberals fear, not without reason, that the political establishment is retrenching and that subtly and surely devices will be found to quell the most outspoken

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Samoa of Samoa

Honolulu   December 1, 1969   It’s easy to assume not much has happened this past year in the Samoas, the Polynesian island group divided in the days of gunboat diplomacy and big power bickering at the end of the last century. Astronauts back from

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The Secret Revolution

December, 1969  Lerchengasse 28/43,1080 Wien, Austria BUDAPEST—Neosocialism is on the march in Hungary. One is forced to invent an awkward term like that to describe what’s happening in this country. How else can you break the news to the world that Communism (Socialism, in the

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From The Moon to a Land Yet Stranger…

Lerchengasse 28/43 1080 Wien, Austria   BELGRADE—Freedom is chaos. At least here, in East Europe. (And there are some people who feel that way even in America.) But there is no question about the chaotic qualities of freedom here, especially in comparison with the splendidly