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...closing days of the campaign, the long-simmering "softness to Communists" issue finally came to full boil. Two weeks before, the Republicans had opened an all-out attack with a nationwide TV broadcast in which Richard Nixon detailed Adlai Stevenson's part as a character witness in the first Alger Hiss trial, and concluded: "His actions, his statements, his record disqualify him from leading . . . the fight against Communism at home and abroad . . ." Last week the Democrats launched a defense and counterattack...
...that he is a man little compelled either by circumstance or temperament to dwell on the tragic issues of life. It is perhaps therefore only natural that his ebullient energies should seek clamant relief in attacking what he calls "this age of high comedy," in spectacularly pricking that "whole boil and bubble of insanity" which he says he sees around him and which so exasperates him that he is often driven "to hold his sides with laughter...
...always heartened me. I have a vivid picture of him in the blackest hour of the Hiss case, standing by the barn and saying in his quietly savage way (he is the kindest of men): 'If the American people understood the real character of Alger Hiss, they would boil...
Instead of merely assigning students big swatches out of textbooks, the classe nouvelle first teaches them how to study: how to use a dictionary, take notes, boil material down to essentials. Trying to breathe new life into old subjects, teachers organize field trips to museums, factories, galleries. Homework is reduced in favor of class projects, manual training, undergraduate magazines and newspapers. By last week, France felt that it had gone a long way in sweeping some of the cobwebs out of the classroom. But that did not mean that the traditional curriculum was being thrown out entirely. After all, said...
...lobster is placed in cold water, which is then brought to a boil, the doctor suggested, it will cooperatively lose consciousness at between 80° and 90° F. Better yet, it can be anesthetized by immersion in a solution made by mixing a pound of table salt in two quarts of cold water. After one minute in this heady brew, it passes out cold, stays groggy for from three to five minutes, and can be boiled with no "visible signs of discomfort...