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THERE cannot be the slightest doubt that a state of mind very much like that of Israel now prevails among American Jews. There is a fanatical certainty abroad that there is only one truth and that Israel is the sole custodian of it. No distinction is made between the Jews of the world and Israel, and not even between the Israeli government and Israel. Israeli statesmen and their policies are assumed to be inviolate and above criticism. There is a frightening intolerance of opinions differing from those of the majority, a complete disregard of reason, and a yielding...
...wrote slashing articles for the Saturday Review and Harper's. Under the name of John August, he made his daily bread with serials and stories for the slicks. He became custodian of the Mark Twain papers, produced three books (Mark Twain's America, Mark Twain in Eruption, Mark Twain at Work) that rescued Twain from the pryings of psychoanalytical critics. His interest in Twain was characteristic of his down-to-earth Americanism: while his fellow writers were busy exiling themselves to Europe, DeVoto remained stubbornly rooted...
...appellation "New Australian" for all immigrants. It stuck. A Good Neighbor movement was launched and hundreds of clubs formed to bring New Australians and Old Australians together. Assimilation has had its failures. The conservative British Medical Association opposes the registration of European doctors. The Trades and Labor Council, jealous custodian of half a century of labor gains, was outraged when hard-working immigrants refused to take "morning tea breaks" and volunteered to work in the rain. The Communists circularized dockworkers: "Most immigrant Bails are fascists opposed to unionism." Crime increased with the rising population, and Australians were disturbed...
Darrach's gift for words may be traced to a lineage of hereditary Scottish bards and minor English writers. Stern custodian of this heritage has been his maternal grandmother Alice Dunbar, now over 80. For grandmother Dunbar, he wrote romantic prose until he was eight, when he went off to Philadelphia's old St. Peter's (Episcopal) Choir School to sing as a boy soprano and play football in the school's historic cemetery. "I remember," he says, "catching a forward pass on Stephen Decatur's grave." At West Philadelphia High, Darrach began to compose...
Capt. John F. Galagher, professor of Naval Science and Naval Property Custodian, said that the total number of students enrolled in NROTC is not definite yet, but will be about...