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...Place for Peasants. Khrushchev's work had brought him face to face with one immutable fact that plagues Communism the world over: that Marxism is and was the creed of a city dweller, with little place in it for the land-loving peasantry. In their writings, Communist thinkers (e.g., Engels) sneer at the muzhiks as "a class of barbarians" with an "anti-collective skull," condemned by history to inexorable extinction. Communist bosses (e.g., Stalin) have consistently endeavored to make the prophecy come true, and the result is a never-ending war between the muzhik and the commissar...
Several into One. The Press published its first book, a Commentary on the Apostles' Creed, attributed to St. Jerome, just a year after Caxton printed his first book in 1477. By the time William (later Archbishop) Laud took over the chancellorship of Oxford in 1629, it was printing such titles as Captain John Smith's Map of Virginia, Burton's Anatomy of Melancholy and Bacon's Advancement of Learning...
Today, beyond his poems, it is The Egoist that stands out from all Meredith's works as the successful testament of his creed. It is also the key book in Biographer Stevenson's joining of the chain of intellectual comedy which runs approximately from Sterne's Tristram Shandy, through Peacock's novels, down via The Egoist to much of Oscar Wilde, Shaw and even the early Aldous Huxley. And yet, Meredith remains as freakishly separate from these other links in the literary chain as does Thorstein Veblen in the chain of social philosophers-and for much...
Though on the route to Radcliffe, the green, porticoed building at 33 Garden Street seldom attracts attention. But for foreign students in Cambridge, the International Students' Center is a little piece of home. There, men and women of every race, creed and continent meet for icebox parties in the kitchen, a game of chess, a dance, or one of the frequent lectures which invariably turn into fervent discussions...
...becomes Dr. Rock. The reader meets him first on a morning walk, wielding "his stick like a prophet's staff . . . the wide, sensual mouth tightened into its own denial." He is a sharp-tongued, arrogant genius, always at odds with his colleagues, the newspapers, society in general. His creed on the lecture stand: "Let no scruples stand in the way of the progress of medical science." His personal credo: "I do not need any friends. I prefer enemies. They are better company, and their feelings towards you are always genuine." By his own admission, he has paid body snatchers...