Nations Without A Past Are Contradictions In

The Only Certain Thing About The Future Is That It Will Surprise Even Those Who Have Seen Furthest Into It.

N. S. Khrushchev Established His Supremacy In The U.s.s.r. After Post-stalinist Alarums And Excursions (1958-64). This Admirable Rough Diamond, A Believer In Reform And Peaceful Coexistence, Who Incidentally Emptied Stalin's Concentration Camps, Dominated The International Scene In The Next Few Years. He Was Also Perhaps The Only Peasant Boy Ever To Rule A Major State

It Seems That American Patriotism Measures Itself Against An Outcast Group. The Right Americans Are The Right Americans Because They're Not Like The Wrong Americans, Who Are Not Really Americans.

It Is A Melancholy Illusion Of Those Who Write Books And Articles That The Printed Word Survives. Alas, It Rarely Does.

Xenophobia Looks Like Becoming The Mass Ideology Of The 20th-century Fin-de-siecle.