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...weeks since the Democratic Congress passed the stiffest labor bill in history, the Senate-bred Democratic presidential hopefuls have seldom missed a chance to explain themselves to labor. Last week three of them (all voted for the bill) turned up at the United Automobile Workers annual convention in Atlantic City, but only one walked off with the house...
...Their joking is educated, with here a lurking bit of Wordsworth, there a pun on Kyd. They can be most lively when most deadpan, and most deadly when most daft. But their triumph rests on their total effect. Delightful as their songs can be (one is about an Oxford-bred cannibal who no longer likes eating people), the evening would grow a bit becalmed were it not for Flanders' animated patter. And winning as his patter can be-not least his account of the London theater season of 1546-it might prove wearisome were it not for his superb...
Marx & Butter. The kind of man Khrushchev is had been case-hardened in the crucible of what Communism is-and both underlay every play of last week's drama. Khrushchev learned his Bolshevism out of his dismal early life-born and bred in a mud-and-reed hut, boy shepherd, child laborer in the coal mines, whipped unforgettably with a knotted nagaika while caught fishing on a princely estate. He was semiliterate until his mid-208, when he was sent, along with other Red army civil war veterans, to Lenin's Rabfak (workers' school). He learned...
Quincy's "heart's desire," his son recorded, "was to make the College a nursery of high-minded, high-principled, well-taught, well-conducted, well-bred gentlemen, fit to take their share, gracefully and honorably, in public and private life." In his attempt to reach this goal, Harvard's fifteenth President failed miserably. His policies incurred the wrath of the undergraduates and culminated in the great riot of 1834 and the subsequent dismissal of the entire sophomore class...
...pattern, and most of the Parmelee grandchildren, clustered with their families around the central money pile, like the arrangement well enough. Reese's wife Esther, who grew up knowing the smell but not the taste of money, venerates the forms as if they were sacraments. To be well bred is to be ill bedded, she thinks, and so she is frigid. But when Reese undertakes a Long Island fling with another man's wife, Esther harries him with hot fury...