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...Labor of Seaweed. Teilhard was certainly one of them. He writes: "A thought, a material improvement, a harmony, a particular expression of love, the enchanting complexity of a smile or a look, all the new beauties that appear for the first time, in me or around me . . . I cherish them like children and cannot believe that they will die entirely in the flesh...
What most infuriates Scotsmen is the notion that they are just backwoods Englishmen. Nearly 95,000 Scots still speak Gaelic and 2,000 speak no English. Scots cherish their own, dour Calvinistic church and their distinctive, Roman-influenced legal system, which features 15-man juries, permits the un-English verdict of "not proven"-meaning "we know you did it, but we haven't got enough to pin it on you." With justice, Scotsmen boast that their school system (which teaches the Scottish slant on British history) is superior to England's. The true Scot scorns such English institutions...
...will be Iron Curtain for US as a world power. We're already not treated as one. After Ike's recent successes, I begin to agree that the best course for him to take is the golf course, after all. For the fondest hope this Administration can cherish is that history will judge it by its score rather than on its record...
...Knows." What made the unholy Marxist alliance between Japan's labor leaders and intellectuals particularly dangerous was the passivity of Japan's masses, who still cherish great respect for their nation's anarchic intelligentsia and are so reluctant to take a stand on anything that opinion polls regularly turn up a majority of "don't knows." When the Red-led unions and students launched their increasingly violent campaign against Kishi and the treaty, the majority of conservative-voting Japanese almost certainly disapproved-but did nothing...
...revolution reached the Iron Division. "Our camp," he says, "was encircled by Allied troops. The French tried to pacify us with artillery fire." Finally, in 1919, the remnants of the Iron Division were shipped to Vladivostok, then in the hands of the White armies. Some foreign military men still cherish a suspicion that Corporal Malinovsky put in some time with the White forces before joining the Bolshevik armies in Siberia as a machine-gun instructor...