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...Tibetan officials, the hard core of the hardest theocracy in the world. The sketches compose what may be one of the last close-ups of a strange ruling class, compound of enlightenment and cruelty, high spirituality and human self-seeking. The author plays some of his characters for discreet laughs -as when a high lama muses on the possible numbers of unrecognized reincarnations of the Buddha. "For instance," he reminded his guests, "take your own President-undoubtedly he is a living Buddha...
From a massive, block-long building in Johannesburg last week came a discreet announcement that set the trading marts of the world buzzing. Sir Ernest Oppenheimer, the world's king of diamonds and its prime minister of gold, was giving up a bit of his vast suzerainty. At 70, he relinquished directorships in seven of his 30-odd gold-mining companies-a step towards turning over his empire to his son and spit & image, 41-year-old Harry Oppenheimer...
...leader-writers pay their respects to British phlegm amid emergency: "A recent incident at Penzance county court . . . is a reminder that man's mastery of the unexpected is not confined to the realm of fiction . . . The registrar approached the matter . . . in a discreet and unruffled manner. His question [to the witness], 'Are you smoking?' . . . paid due regard to the proprieties of the court . . . Having been answered in the negative there followed the conclusion delivered in unemotional monosyllables: 'Well, then, your head is on fire...
...have done better than Harvard in building themselves up as social centers for their students. Some of them accomplish it with fancy common rooms and lavish celebrations; Yale does the job by leaving enforcement of parietal rules to the discretion of the College masters, some of whom are quite discreet...
...College, Theodore M. Greene, said, "he might as well o it under home conditions. There's no use forcing him to go to a West Haven bar ... they've got to go awfully wild before I'll damp them." When damping is necessary, it usually takes the form of discreet removal from the scene of trouble and then gentle counsel--on first offense. If the wicked fail to learn, the Masters may ask them to resign from the College, or at worst, suspend or expel from the College, or at worst, suspend or expel them from Yale. This happens rarely...