On this basis, which was originally financial and goes back to George Peabody, there grew up in the twentieth century a power structure between London and New York which penetrated deeply into university life, the press, and the practice of foreign policy.

A society is a group whose members have more relationships with one another then they do with outsiders.

Each individual in a society is a nexus where innumerable relationships of this character intersect.

To this day the Arab influence is evident in southern Italy, northern Africa and, above all, in Spain.

A community is made up of intimate relationships among diversified types of individuals--a kinship group, a local group, a neighborhood, a village, a large family.

The argument that the two parties should represent opposed ideals and policies, one, perhaps, of the Right and the other of the Left, is a foolish idea acceptable only to doctrinaire and academic thinkers.

It is not easy to tear any event out of the context of the universe in which it occurred without detaching from it some factor that influenced it.