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...Beatrix Potter "knew it was quite unnecessary to distort animals and make them 'funny' in order to touch the imagination of a child. On the contrary, it was their very beauty, and the seriousness and reality of their little world, which had held her entranced through the long summer holidays of her own childhood." Some of the animals in the illustrations of the Potter Tales are set in their frames with the dignity and charm of aristocrats in old English miniatures...
...reporting is always a nuisance. When the Crimson on Thursday, October 24, in reporting on the AVC meeting of the previous evening, stated that I had "expressed faith in the motives of the Kremlin" the effect was completely to distort my position in the debate...
Edric Weld's letter in retaliation to the "vague," "biased," and "inflammatory" Crimson editorials seems designed to distort and obscure the basic issues. The charge that the Council is self-perpetuating and undemocratic is ignored, and the attack on the system of choosing a Council is neatly nullified by Weld who quotes out of context and then shouts "contradiction." If the Student Council is serious about justifying its activities to the student body, it must be primarily concerned with answering the main questions directed to it, and only secondarily interested in bickering with the Crimson...
Even fairy tales were under attack. Pravda blasted two children's magazines for printing "nonsensical fairy tales, which take the youthful reader out of the realm of reality or distort the truth about the Soviet Union." Instead, said Pravda sternly, they should acquaint "young readers with the problems of life and the struggle of our Socialist fatherland...
...court held: the Selective Service Act "guarantees the veteran against loss of position or loss of seniority by reason of his absence. . . . He steps back on the seniority escalator at the precise point he would have occupied had he kept his position continuously during the war. . . . But we would distort the language of these provisions if we read it as granting the veteran an increase in seniority over what he would have had if he had never entered the armed services...