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...Crypto-Republican? Pat's discretion with the press obviously pleases the White House. "It's Luci's wedding," he maintains. When pressed, he has insisted: "This is my private life and I will not discuss it." Once, venturing a little further than usual when asked what it was like to be betrothed to a President's daughter, Pat replied succinctly: "I've never been engaged before." Nor, for that matter, has he ever previously been identified with the Democrats. No one will say whether Pat inherited his parents' Republican sympathies or how he voted...
...they'd never heard of, Phelps may seem rigourous beyond necessity. But Harvard is surely better off not coddling such flagrant calender-scoffers. Send them to Vietnam or M.I.T. As an alumnus, I sympathize with Dean Phelps' firm campaign to keep Harvard free of time-table Schlamperei and the crypto-inverts who practice...
...Volunteers. Only two Communists were involved in the latest ruling, but its practical effect is to end litigation against 41 other party members who have refused to register. In 15 years, the five-member board established by the McCarran Act has failed to get a single Communist or crypto-Communist organization or individual registered. As Harry Truman said of the bill, which passed over his veto: "The idea of requiring Communist organizations to divulge information about themselves is a simple and attractive one. But it is about as practical as requiring thieves to register with the sheriff...
...year-old novelist and playwright (The Temple of the Golden Pavilion) who has been called "the Japanese Camus," The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea is obviously intended as a major work of art -as an Oriental transfiguration of the novel of the absurd, and as a crypto-sociological study of the homicidal hysteria that, in Author Mishima's opinion, lies latent in the Japanese character. Unhappily, the book turns out to be simply a diabolically skillful thriller...
...flags" is what the prophet Zoroaster called the ancient country of the Afghans. The land of the high barriers is what it seemed to U.S. Schoolteacher Rosanne Klass in 1951, when she settled in the capital of Kabul. The barriers were purdah, which segregated man from woman, and the crypto-snobbery that kept the foreign colony aloof from the Afghan people. They were barriers, it would seem, that would last as long as the Koran and Kipling, except that Miss Klass did not come all the way from Cedar Rapids to be barred by them...