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...welcome to join night make one wonder about how he conceives of women. In what category of existence would he place women. so that it would he logical to make the statement "all are welcome." (Without another relevant, the word "all" must here refer to "people.") Does such thinking betray the true attitude of the Pi? And is it this attitude which explains how Mr. Grant could be so blinded to reality that he could hold up for praise this attitude of exclusion, claiming that it "prevents the accusation of [the Pi] being exclusive...
...character. He is not merely a status seeker in Vance Packard's sense of the term, or a simple showoff. (Still, touches of artful swank are essential-the polo mallet cast casually onto the back seat of the car, or the real, working buttonholes on jacket sleeves that betray the Savile Row suit.) The authentic snob shows it by his attitude toward his superiors and his inferiors. Gazing upward, he apes and fawns and aspires to a gentility that is not native to him; looking down, he snubs and sniffs and sneers at those who don't share...
...that Hess arrived to propose a German-British pact, Hitler's Luftwaffe planes bombed London's Houses of Parliament. The revisionist versions in the diaries coincide with the Soviet version of World War II: an untrustworthy Britain, more at ease with fascism than with Communism, primed to betray its alliance with Stalin. On Saturday, however, the Soviet news agency TASS dismissed the diaries as "a dirty falsification" designed to promote fascism...
...nice thing about movie military academies is that nothing ever changes in them. At good old C.M.I. (Carolina Military Institute), the seniors still torment the plebes (here known as "knobs"), and one among them must betray his upper-classmates and violate the honor code in order to restore civility among the young gentlemen. So creaky is this convention that there is no attempt to make this story contemporary; it is set in 1964. Some novelties have been added: the rottenest hazers are a secret society leagued with the customarily bonkers commandant; their chief victim is the only black cadet...
...whole, The Boys From Syracuse may suffer just a little from its virtues. Perhaps the geniality and entertainment of the evening betray a certain lack of ambition on the part of the ART. Perhaps the cast could be working on more serious projects. But then again, as the two Dromios proclaim by way of introduction, "If it's good enough for Shakespeare, it's good enough...