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...real schooling when he was jailed in 1933 for organizing a bloody railway strike near Bucharest. After eleven years in prisons and work camps, he was allowed to escape in 1944, as a gesture to the advancing Red army, began rising rapidly through Rumania's Communist hierarchy. (To distinguish himself from the rest of the Gheorghius, who are as common in Rumania as Smiths in the U.S., he took the added name "Dej," in honor of one of the many towns in which he had served time.) Since 1952, when he ousted the unlovely Ana Pauker, Gheorghiu...
TIME attempted to make a clear distinction between books and non-books. I wish that it had also attempted to distinguish as clearly between truth and non-truth in its references to Hawthorn Books...
...from other areas, students from colleges of a different tradition, unacquainted with our way of life, see nothing wrong with shorts, sandals, and sports shirts. But Harvard men (much less Harvardmen) should know better. I call upon my brethren to return to the ways of old. Let us distinguish ourselves from the surrounding mass, with some outward sign of our inward grace. Let our sisters of Radcliffe repent their evilly unclad ways and join us in proud return to Cambridge traditions. Jacob Rondelle...
Young Israel Synagogue in Cleveland, is that it threatens the philosophical underpinnings of liberal Judaism, which was founded largely on the ethical rationalism of 19th century German thought. Liberal Jews set small store by the Law; some Reform congregations have little to distinguish them from Unitarians. Existentialism, with its distrust of reason and its emphasis on the irrational and emotional nature of man's fear-filled, striving experience of life, points Jews as well as Christians back to the intangibles of the Old Testament, where religion has little to do with peace of mind or making the world...
...hydrogen weapons, when nations can be devastated in a single strike, there is indisputable equity in the position taken by the U.S. Government; yet the Soviets could also claim the equal self-defensive right to shoot down any foreign-spy planes, since radarmen on the ground cannot distinguish an unarmed surveillance plane from a plane carrying a hydrogen bomb...