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Buck's piece was not written for the Review but was an old speech, reprinted. Similarly, Paul Deats, Jr.'s "The Problem of Liberal Education" was drawn from an address and as a result has both the asset of some bright rhetoric and notable phrasing and the defect of little depth and tightness. Deats, professor of theology at Boston University, asks the questions: what is a liberal education? is it possible? what hope is there for it? His definition is a fine summary of recent thought but in discussing the forces intruding on liberal education and the prospects for their...
Strange to say, no reliable study of this extraordinary individual has ever been written in English. The defect is now remedied by Britain's Lord Kinross, a Turcophile (Within the Taurus) who has known some of Atatürk's principal associates for many years. In this acute and readable biography, Kinross sometimes oversimplifies the period but never underplays the complex and astonishing nature of the beast he is examining...
Like many other conservatives, Rusher resorts to the numbers game to explain away the Goldwater debacle of 1964. To the charge that most of the G.O.P. total consisted of party votes rather than Goldwater votes, Rusher answered, "Given all the pressures to defect, I think the 27 million had an unusually high proportion of the gold as opposed to the dross, contrary to Hugh Scott." He smiled, pleased with the pun, and continued, "They would have sunk their hands on a barrel of rattlesnakes to pull the Goldwater lever...
...recommendation to Moscow was typically blunt: "Robertson is 25, the son of a worker. His standard of political education is low, but studying in Moscow should remedy this defect. He is not a Party member but he should be ready to join in a year...
...Francisco speech, James L. Robertson, one of the Federal Reserve's seven governors, declared that today's "tangle of overlapping responsibilities, conflicting philosophies and procedural cross-purposes cannot be tolerated much longer." Merely "knocking heads together" will not solve the problem, said Robertson. "The defect is in the structure...