79.Even dinner parties,if they happen at all,have gone casual.In a time of long work hours and demanding family schedules,busy hosts insist,rightly,that it's better to share a takeout pizza on paper plates in the family room than to wait for the perfect moment or a"real"dinner party....
To be fair, Prestowitz's resistance may have something to do with the stark reality that the book carries scant analysis of the impact of the former Soviet bloc escapees. Instead, and quite rightly, it focuses heavily on China's far more influential 1.3 billion or so new capitalists and,...