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...that Italy is a Catholic nation. At one time they backed the monarchy; nowadays they even favor the capitalist Common Market. As a nation, Italy is less than a century old; first under the monarchy, then through the long night of Fascism, the country has had little time to accustom itself to democracy. Thus, to many Italians, Communism-or at least their brand of it-does not appear the fearful specter that it does in many other lands...
...seminars of this type often provide students with enviable personal experience and memories--some have retained devotion for them throughout their College years--but the connection of these seminars to the rest of the College curriculum is obscure. Assume that an important function of the Freshman year is to accustom undergraduates to Harvard's strict intellectual requirements, and it is difficult to sanction these formless, lackadaisical seminars...
...Fourth Republic and enabled Charles de Gaulle to come to power as the one man with sufficient stature to end it. Last week peace seemed closer than ever, as the F.L.N. announced its willingness to settle on the basis of an Algerian plebiscite, agreed to a "transition" period to accustom Moslems to the idea that "Frenchmen and French interests will remain in Algeria...
...that its "chief glory" is its 800,000 books, to which one's reaction tends to be, "is that all?". Dartmouth's great educational innovation, according to Birmingham is the Great Issues course, which requires daily reading of the New York Times. "The Dartmouth football coach," Birmingham coos, "must accustom himself to a squad that carries the Wall Street Journal and the New York Times--to prepare for the give-and-take of the G.I. course...
...American Nego is not a recent immigrant. But unlike the white immigrant groups, the Negroes did not join together in ethnic communities upon arrival in the "land of the free" and were thus not able together to accustom themselves to the new society and to pursue mobility aims in the classic Lower East Side-to-"respectable" apartments-to-suburbia fashion of the other major immigrant communities, Slavery meant that members of the same African village or tribe were forcibly separated and settled in different parts of this country and even that members of the same family were split from each...