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...timing of PCF Secretary Georges Marchais's visit to Russia--three days after the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan--seems more pathetic than reproachable. His January 11th live broadcast from Moscow to Paris obliterates ten years of the French Communist Party's work towards separation from the Kremlin. To the chagrin of most party members, the Secretary General speaks of solidarity with the Soviets, and dismisses French social democracy as imperialistic. Of course, he doesn't mention Kabul. By resurrecting such buried phrases as "proletarian internationalism," Marchais plunges the party back into a long-abandoned orthodox line, thereby killing all hopes...
...standardize the admissions examinations given by Harvard, Princeton, Yale and a few other selective colleges, administered a written essay examinations. The SAT and the essays coexisted until World War II, when the Board indefinitely discontinued the latter. Educational Testing Service (ETS) officials will account and admit, to their chagrin, the stories related to the first IQ tests, which were designed for the purpose of ethnic exclusion. One run on Ellis Island in 1912 concluded that 83 per cent of Jews, 90 per cent of Hungarians, 79 per cent of Italians, and 87 per cent of Russians were "feebleminded." Other...
...second semester advances and midterms approach, approximately 6400 of us drag ourselves to classes with looks of chagrin, determination, or genuine interest--depending on the time of day. Winter reading period fades away, vacation never existed. The piquant awareness of our hometown mailman and the next door neighbor's child subsides as we decide which course to take for a fifth course and which to take pass/fail...
make him the darling of the European sporting press. To the chagrin of journalists, however, he is taciturn, bordering on withdrawn. "Sometimes the whole business is too much for me," he admits. "Only skiing calms...
...bewilderment of will. The U.S. must decide how its strength should be applied, and if it is willing to pay the inevitably high price for applying strength. French Author Louise Weiss believes that the present American predicament began in "a search for a false popularity," a product of the chagrin over the Viet Nam years. The quest should be abandoned. Americans should recognize and accept the fact that much of world opinion runs against the U.S. now. Daniel Patrick Moynihan suggested five years ago that the U.S. should assume a role of minority opposition. Ultimately, the U.S. must appeal...