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...useless because disloyalty is not eliminated by formalities, and invidious since it selects the beneficiaries of government assistance in one area and not in others. We therefore believe that the Act would be strengthened by the elimination of the oath requirement.--press release issued by Robert M. Cross, Adm. Ass't to the Vice President...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Statements From Other Schools on Loyalty Oath | 10/6/1959 | See Source »

...Communism could be slain by the jaw bone of an ass, in the junior Senator from Connecticut America would have a weapon more insidiously lethal than any atomic blast...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Sep. 14, 1959 | 9/14/1959 | See Source »

...Emerson Hall corridor between classes on Monday and were badly mutilated under foot. We are therefore unable to identify the author; but we do know he is an assistant professor, for in the torn, smudged corner of the title page one can still make out the three letters "ASS...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: How Many in a Phone Booth? | 7/23/1959 | See Source »

...touched would turn to gold, and his wish was granted, even to the inclusion of whatever touched his lips. Before the laughing gods allowed him to rescind his wish, Midas almost died of thirst. As for his taste in music, Midas had the long, pointed ears of an ass, according to the Greeks, because in judging a musical contest he had preferred Pan to Apollo...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Missing Link | 7/20/1959 | See Source »

...rent some of his gaudier noisemakers, but one favorite set of instruments he already had on hand: the eight Ford and Chevrolet brake drums that he picked up two years ago in an automobile junk yard. Still missing from the ensemble's instrument list: the jawbone of an ass...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Variations on a Brake Drum | 3/30/1959 | See Source »

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