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...P.R.C. [People's Republic of China], I don't discern any significant differences...
...anti-semitism ludicrously into gear: "The Hollywood Jews ... know what a pretty girl is. Ah Goldwyn Mayer! I would have given ten years of my life to sit for one moment in their armchairs. All those goddesses at my mercy." The underlying equations here aren't hard to discern: Hollywood is sex and money, and sex and money are possessed by Jews who exclude Aryans...
Instructive Figure. He studied landscape design and was a botanist. He was also one of the first foreigners to discern, as minister to France in the 1780s, the challenging merits of new artists like Jacques Louis David and Antonio Canova. "I do not feel an interest in any pencil but that of David," he wrote in a flush of enthusiasm. Jefferson became the first American to transcend the cultural provinciality of his own land, moving with some ease between the New World and the Old. Even if he had had no political life, he would on that ground alone have...
...read today's "The News in Review" page with great interest and some appreciation. I could hardly fail to discern the sense of offended egalitarianism and outraged activism that informs each of the four or five pieces written by your correspondents. Indeed it is a response to the important events and significant injustices that do occur in the community; the University Daily should not hesitate to publish such stories in an informed, responsible and if need be, dramatic fashion...
Despite the piecemeal nature of the program, it is still possible to discern how the University insures that women don't have unwanted pregnancies, and at the same discover some of the trends in birth control practice that are emerging in this the sixth year of Harvard's birth-control-to-all policy...