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...Frank Pace is excellent presidential timber-well educated, fine background, superior administrative abilities. He has an interest in our Government, is an Anglo-Saxon, and approaches matters the way that type of person always does. Most important of all, he is a bang-up golfer...
Harvard piously avoided hell and confined itself to teaching safe Anglo-Saxon literature and language, plus a few scattered courses in more modern English writings...
That Cozzens fellow is certainly remarkable. Snob, introvert, hermit-all this, and a proud Anglo-Saxon blueblood too. Do you think poor greaseballs like me will ever be able to appreciate the genius of this...
...other major powers, has tried to see that its citizens on duty in foreign countries are assured as nearly equal legal rights as they would have at home. This is relatively uncomplicated in European nations, where the "host-nation" juridical system usually has more of a common basis with Anglo-Saxon law, but it creates difficulties in the Far and Middle East, because the 19th century practice of extraterritoriality is identified with imperialism's toplofty ways...
...skits considers an aspect of the French (and occasionally of the British) national character with the sort of inane intensity a small boy devotes to a wart. Items: French Suspiciousness, British Weather. The Cult of the Liver among Middle-Aged Frenchmen, The Function of the Horse in Anglo-Saxon Courtship Patterns. There is a marvelous visual essay on the ricochet principle in Gallic traffic, and the now-familiar comic scene in which a British mother gives her daughter some moral aspirin on her wedding night: "I know, my dear, it's disgusting. But . . . just close your eyes and think...