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...lack of "clarity." After all, the Russians sniffed, how can a fact-finding committee be truly impartial if it doesn't even condemn the U.S. in advance? "There is no demand [in the proposal] to withdraw American troops from Viet Nam," chided Izvestia, "nor to stop the barbarian bombardments of North Viet...
...liberal arts education," she writes in Sixpence, "is a true and precious stone which can glow just as wholesomely on a kitchen table as when it is put on exhibition in a jeweler's window or bartered for bread and butter. To what barbarian plane are we descending when we demand that it serve only the economy?" The educated housewife "will be able to judge a newspaper item more sensibly, understand a politician's speech more sagely, talk over her husband's business problems more helpfully, and entertain her children more amusingly if her brain is tuned...
Foreign devils do it. Even Moscow revisionists do it. But for Mao Tse-tung, 70, leader of the glorious Chinese People's Republic, to indulge in such barbarian ostentation as a limousine was hardly thinkable. Nonetheless, Mao has apparently decided to make the great leap forward in style. Peking has placed an order with Britain's decadent Rolls-Royce Ltd., for a $12,726 Silver Cloud Mark III and a $20,454 Phantom V. They should do a lot for his image at the Gate of Heavenly Peace, since with a little friendly assistance even the clock...
...Bullock's view, Hitler was the ultimate barbarian, a political genius without the scruples of a Caesar or the ideas of a Napoleon, who gave the world a megalomaniacal warning of his plan of conquest, then proceeded unswervingly to carry it out. Revised and reissued, Bullock's portrait today risks being taken for just another book about Hitler. In point of fact it is now, as it was originally, the standard against which the others are to be measured...
They won't of course. For everyone in the League today's conflicts will be the initial games; for some of the "barbarian opponents they will be the second. Furthermore, most of the non-Ivy-teams have been preparing for these games since last April, while the Ivy schools themselves did not get serious about things until the first of this month...