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During the fifties, this wing had found its principal spokesman in Stevenson, with his elegant prose, his self-deprecating wit. It felt that the United States must take more initiatives to end the arms race, that if America did not recognize Red China it should at least begin to move toward that goal, that nationalism was the new and most potent fo
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aristocracy. Lumberjacks by day, conductors of the philharmonic
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sweet affections and austere diktats, hugs and kisses mixed with stony pronouncements: “It’s
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The tourists, however, were now soldiers.
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Why was San Antonio built in a flood basin? How did it become such a tourist destination? Are the city’s social relations really so amicable, its political fabric truly multicultural? Why has it been so poor, and for so long?