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...deny that the record compiled is replete with discord and disagreement . . . We will not all be together on those conclusions. We may differ on the proper policy to be applied in the Far East. We may separate on questions of strategy. We may divide on personalities. But we will be ... single-minded in our will to preserve our institutions. We hope they may be preserved in peace, but preserve them we shall. Mistakes may add to the measure of our sacrifices or change the form of the ordeal we may be called upon to endure, but come what may, America...
...another act of choice, we could choose to go it alone. But we'd better count the cost, and choose with our eyes open, not in a blindness of irritation because not every country in the free world always agrees with every one of our policies. Countries do differ, as men and women sometimes do. Differences do not mean divorce, when the great ends of policy are still held in common...
...Despite anatomical similarities, said Adler, men and apes differ "essentially in kind," not in degree. Only man "makes artistically," only men "machinofacture," only men "communicate ideas," and "only human society is constitutional or political." Men and apes, he argued, are as far apart "as a square and a triangle. There can be no intermediates-no 31-sided figure." And since there are no intermediate forms (no missing link), there can be no common ancestor...
...There is no noun of assembly for cats," said the fourth leader. "Scorning to go about in packs or herds or even in a pride, they walk by themselves." Judge Basil Blagden of Cliffords Inn promptly begged to differ. "Sirs," he wrote, "You have, I believe, for once fallen into error ... Cats . . . assemble, on the rare occasions when they do so, in a 'clowder' and kittens in a 'kindle...
Social Research found that televiewers have come to regard commercials with "the stoical air appropriate to a necessary evil." Reactions differ considerably by class. The Upper Middles (12%), if they watch commercials at all, watch just to be critical. Middle Majority viewers (65%) are more sporting, will stay with commercials until they get bored. Lower Middle Class (23%) televiewers are apt to be most considerate. Because the advertiser pays for the program, they feel duty-bound to lend their eyes & ears to his sales message...