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...dictator of the enterprise." Russell drafted a 1,500-word statement and sent it winging about the world for comment and signature. The world will not long remember Dictator Russell (or Sponsor Einstein) for anything that appeared in the statement, which was a dreary mishmash of gloom-laden clich...
...depth and intensity of Southern opposition to the Supreme Court rulings cannot be judged by the shrill cries of demagogic politician's. More important than the demagogues in the impending battle will be a band of solid Southerners who have already abandoned the old devices and clichés and are prepared to fight until doomsday with legal weapons to maintain segregation in their public schools. The day after last week's Supreme Court opinion, an editorial in the influential Richmond (Va.) News Leader made clear the nature of this opposition. Excerpts...
...trouble with the regime. As a translator in the German army he was busted from captain and shipped off to the Russian front as a machine gunner. Out of that experience he has written an awkward though well-intentioned book to illustrate what has by now become a cliché: that many a German soldier hated Hitler and the war but played it down the middle and did what he was told...
...Tartars and Mongols. As to monocles, they were the exception . . . Fencing was neither part of an officer's drill nor his pastime. However, it really does not matter whether Zhukov fenced those Prussian officers in or out .. . Shaven-headed, monocles, swashbuckling, heel-clicking, the familiar good old clichés . . . the Erich von Stroheim type created by those smart gentlemen in Hollywood...
...Republic of Letters such literary greats as Henry Fielding, Johnson, Boswell, Gibbon and Byron appear freshly alluring. Author Kronenberger can take the measure of bent, spiteful Alexander Pope and awaken fresh interest in "the master of the scalpel and the poisoned dart [who] reclothed clichés of thought so vividly that they long ago became cliches of language." He can persuade the reader that gabby Letter Writer Lady Mary Wortley Montagu is worth another whirl: "She had very few friends, but time was one of them." And he can be shrewd about such old critically-untouchables as Robinson Crusoe...