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Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. '38, professor of History, said yesterday that a statement by Senator Harry Byrd of Virginia spoke "sadly for the decay of constitutional knowledge...
With a few figures, your "Decay in the Desert" makes it startlingly clear why King Saud trembles with anger and fear at the very thought of Israel. This young, vigorous neighboring democracy is a palpable threat to his disease-festered, corruption-ridden, feudal police-state...
...great difficulty of my whole career as a painter is that what I love most . . . holds little of interest for most people ... I love the approach of winter, the retreat of winter, the change from snow to rain and vice versa, the decay of vegetation and the resurgence of plant life in the spring. These to me are exciting and beautiful, an endless panorama of beauty and drama, but . . . the mass of humanity remains either bored and indifferent or actually hostile...
...life of the successful dictator when he wakes up in the middle of the night thinking that there is nothing between him and the mob. "Where are my middle classes?" he is apt to cry. Something of this sort has been happening to Dictator Franco in recent years. Decay and dissension in the once-powerful Falange Party movement has emphasized Franco's lonely position as head of state, led him to seek a broader base for his regime. Thus he has dickered with the oldtime monarchists and permitted the return of some of the liberal survivors of the republic...
...next came to bat with Nightmare in Red, on Armstrong Circle Theater, its long-heralded story of "how Communism came to Russia and became a world menace." The early footage from old news films was devoted to the Czarist decay that made Communism possible,and there were fine shots of the Romanovs at play while revolutionaries were being ineffectually routed out of cellars. For the upheavals of the Bolshevik age, Producer Henry Salomon leaned heavily on excerpts from such great Eisenstein films as Potemkin and Ten Days That Shook the World. All in all, the story of tyranny rampant...