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the fading one created and maintained by the power of the West.
Instead of the outlines of a new order created and supported by a new
center of power, what appears on the horizon of the civilized world is
the specter of anarchy, with legal arrangements, institutions, and
procedures being utterly out of tune with the objective technological
conditions of the age.
We are saddened by the death of our friend
Lionel Trilling
whose work appeared for many years in this magazine
and whose influence will continue
to
be felt.
