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...apple. As he grows older, the boy can be measured scientifically so he will continue to be a round peg in a round hole. For example, a test will undertake to show not only how good a scientist he might become, but also how likely he is to betray his country. If he wants to be a journalist, he can read a book on writing for "people who are just about average." He can rate his happiness on a Euphorimeter and check up on his psychological health by answering questions: "Are you plastic? Are you always able...
...feels the meaning lies, never to call direct attention to his own feelings or flaunt stylistic achievement. In this record of the greatest show on earth the poet breaks his reserve only to let a little wryness creep into certain turns of phrase, sudden words that seem to betray a tiny, noncommital wrinkle at the corner of the mouth. But this is an individuality which does not mar the observational clarity of the poems...
...selection shows a fair balance between realism and abstraction. Some attempts to "be modern" like Paul Biechel's abstraction "City and Street" betray a lack of technical skill or real imagination. Many of the best artists in the exhibit, however, do find natural expression in less realistic styles...
...resolutely Communist, yet so clever that much of Asia still toys with the notion that he is really just a Vietnamese patriot. Diem's career has grown mostly out of negative decisions. He is a sparsely gifted administrator, and of politics he says: "Clever maneuvers only betray, demoralize and divide the people." To some of the more sophisticated in the game, he rates as a marginal...
Said the 1951 biography: "Toward the end of 1924, agents of the security police arrested Comrade Vasile Luca and subjected him to untold tortures and sufferings, trying to make him betray names of his comrades and to make him betray his party. Like a true Communist, he remained steadfast and unshaken, and refused to betray the cause." Said last week's indictment: In 1924 he enrolled as an agent for the Rumanian secret police and "acted as an agent provocateur...