International records / Foreign Relations of the United States

57. Address by the Director of the United States Information Agency ( Reinhardt )

bout or instantaneously view events, but they are often without perspective. They are instead the “happenings,” not what preceded them nor what is likely to follow. In Knoxville, I would assume, you are accustomed to seeing Belgians and Japanese and Nigerians. There will be an occasional foreign movie; a newspaper headline about the Middle East; the story on the evening news about Brazil. There may be a Kabuki play from Japan; there is certainly access in your libraries to every foreign culture. And yet how much time, how much thought can we give to any single event; how much can we immerse ou…