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Just as the Nation has two different standards of morality in judging the U.S.S.R. and our country, so it applies two different standards of journalism. Its own irresponsible attacks on genuine liberals is legitimate criticism, but a reasoned objection to its Soviet apologetics is "libel." What a comedown from the days of Godkin and Villard...
...reluctant just to leave him in Switzerland, a major listening-post for the meeting of East & West. Finally, the State Department hit on a slick way out. It appointed Vincent diplomatic agent and U.S. consul general at Tangier, the international territory in Morocco. Though the assignment was a comedown for a veteran of 25 years in the foreign service, Tangier is one of the few important posts where the chief of mission does not require Senate confirmation...
South-Southeast. Half-Indian, half-Irish Author Menen's little parable is fair sport as far as it goes, but it is a comedown from his witty and pointed satirical novel about the British in India, The Prevalence of Witches (1948). The Backward Bride seems meant to be profound in a Shavian way when it is not trying to be like Norman Douglas' South Wind. It is as far from either model as it is from the double target roughly caricatured in the description of Professor Lissom. The professor is somewhere south-southeast of Philosopher Bertrand Russell...
...pressing coats in a clothing factory. Then he signed on as an unskilled laborer in Stratford, Conn. Boris Labensky, an engineer at the Sikorsky Aircraft plant, took him into his home. For eight weeks, Barsov lived with them while he dug ditches for drain pipes. It was a bitter comedown for an officer...
Other political oldtimers brooded over the comedown of the royal line. Said one who had served both Leopold and his beloved father, mountain-climbing Albert I: "Leopold has the same passion for golf that Albert had for Alpinism. The big difference is that Albert would not dream of indulging in his favorite sport when there was state business to be transacted, while Leopold simply will not forgo a game of golf...