Word: congratulationes
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As a realistic step towards stopping riots, ousting Marcuse was obviously absurd. In the sunny San Diego campus of the UC system, Marcuse did little but walk the beaches with his crowd of devotees. Clumps of five or six Marcusians would discuss revolution as they strolled from the UCSD campus...
LYNDON JOHNSON'S fifth and final Thanksgiving Proclamation was not the conventional catalogue of national self-congratulation. How could it be, after the sort of year the nation-and the world-has experienced? Flat and matter-of-fact, it fell far short of eloquence. Yet in tone and temper...
Though the Warsaw Pact countries that joined the Soviets in the invasion issued only official communiques of self-congratulation, their people clearly did not share that sentiment. In East Berlin, for example, hundreds of people flatly refused the demand of party workers to sign petitions in support of the intervention...
∙ON INSTITUTIONS: "Self-congratulation should be taken in small doses. It is habit-forming, and most human institutions are far gone in addiction."
Part of the fault was Hope himself, the Academy's perennial and usually excellent M.C. It was difficult to be funny under the circumstances. The Academy had postponed its awards by 48 hours, to honor the period of mourning for Dr. Martin Luther King. Judging by Hope's...