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FOREIGN POLICY : "American leaders,both political and intellectual, are searching desperately for means of 'appeasing' or 'accommodating' the Soviet Union . . . The American people are being told that, however valuable their freedom may be, it is even more important to live. A craven fear of death is entering the American consciousness." To Goldwater, the reason for the "failure" of U.S. policy is obvious: "Our leaders have not made victory the goal of American policy . . . We have . . . 'waged' peace, while the Communists wage war . . . We have tried to pacify the world. The Communists mean...
After serving three years in Sugamo Prison, Kishi and 18 other "Class" A war-crime suspects" were released without trial. In jail he had read Confucius, exercised, cleaned cells and latrines, despised the craven and selfish behavior of the admirals and generals in prison with him, and thought. Kishi recalls: "I had plenty of time to strip my own soul naked and study it." He says he was "forced to the conclusion that the war had been futile from the start. I became convinced that Japan must never again be involved in war." Finally, "when I found...
...Abominable. In Raleigh, N.C., News and Observer Columnist Charles Craven discussed a city recreation department snowman contest, said there would be "two divisions-one for white children and one for colored," but "the snow men in both divisions will be white...
...light and serious novel is a moving love letter to the city of Rome. It consists of the memoirs of Jimmy, an exquisitely cultivated Belgian bum who gets a job as a tourist guide in the Holy City and finds a few shadowy, crackpot friends. There is Sir Craven, so named for his Craven "A" cigarettes, a fop straight out of the Oscar Wilde era and The Yellow Book. There is a businesslike crook named Enrico, and there is a beautiful girl named Geronima, who tucks a flower into Jimmy's buttonhole each morning. Soon he becomes known across...
Pressed by Pam. Betjeman stands for the local, the small, the decent; and his verse is filled with an engaging shorthand of brand names -Austin cars, Craven A cigarettes, Heinz's Ketchup, Post Toasties. In one poem he used the names of real people to ironic effect ("T. S. Eliot, H. G. Wells and Edith Sitwell lie in Mell-stock Churchyard now"), but added the thoughtful note: "The names are put in not out of malice or satire but merely for their euphony...