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Said the President: "We do not try to mask our national problems, whatever they may be, under a cloak of secrecy. We do not try to cover up our failures. We freely admit them and bend our energies and toil to meet them. I know of no other great power in the history of the world which so freely admitted its faults and felt it had such a moral duty to correct...
...feelings of one student who said. "Machines or no machines, smokes or no smokes, live or die--at this point I couldn't care less." Most attributed the wide-spread apathy to the paucity of cigarette smokers and the obscurity of the machine, which was located in a cloak room...
Deutscher makes another significant point, most recently reiterated in the New Statesman of April 17: "In foreign policy [Khrushchev] continues, amid changed circumstances, Stalin's Realpolitik, even if he does it under the cloak of de-Stalinization. He seeks to subordinate international communism, and the revolutionary movements of Asia, Africa and Latin America, to the purposes of Soviet policy and diplomacy...
...Russia topping the list. Not a single fine was paid. The tickets were all sent to an office in the State Department, where an official stamped CANCELED on them and dispatched them to the police in daily stacks. Reason for the wholesale ticket fixing: diplomatic immunity, the protective legal cloak that covers not only ambassadors but minor officials and even embassy employees from virtually all kinds of civil lawsuits and criminal prosecutions...
...makes fetishes out of his innovations. He puts costumes on his actors when their absence might be confusing--the priest who buries Ophelia is surpliced and Osric carries his elaborate hat. The "play within the play" is performed in costume. Hamlet sports a jersey and trousers, if not a cloak, of "inky black...