A symposium so rich in insights can hardly be summarized, but particularly recommended are the papers by Elgin Groseclose, who shows that foreign aid is more Marxian socialism than Christian charity or aid to development; Helmut Schoeck, who points up the power-drive, and the appeal to envy, of leftist intellectuals; J. Fred Rippy, who attacks the economic interests that push for foreign aid; P. T. Bauer, who refutes the theory of compulsory development through government; Gottfried Haberler, who defends development by private enterprise; Willard S. Stokes, who shows how the ideas of Latin-American intellectuals have hampered enterprise; and Justus M. Van der Kroef, who takes us to Indonesia, to show how Javanese sta- tism and communalism are hindering the private economic development of the outer islands.
About the middle of the nineteenth century, writers began to balk at the idea of a story being something remembered, reconstructed, and recited by an audible voice. Instead, they wanted it to be as impersonal, omniscient, and—so to speak—untold as possible. The result was a century of very lively experiment, and most of the possibilities seem to have been thoroughly explored. So the best thing left to do seems to be simply to want to tell a particular story very much, and to do so. All the theory in the world about what a narrative must be, and should do, cannot explain what is alive on a printed page, nor justify what is dead.
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