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...Americans are the Romans of today. Material greatness, technical perfection, millionaires and beautiful women combine to divert the eyes [from] a soul essentially young and simple...
...other deterrent was more sophisticated. It was called UNESCO; it was composed of leading intellectuals from all over the world, and it was designed to attack war at its roots, "in the minds of men." Through science and education and propaganda, it was to divert the aggressive instincts, fears, prejudices which make men fight...
Lashed to a creamy forth by Union plans for a Dartmouth dance, the Social Committee protested that two dances would cut into House profits. A Union ticket fee of $1.80 as against a $3.60 toll at the House dances was regarded as a direct attempt to divert both Freshmen and bargain hunters from the Houses. Yet both Yard and House dances were sellouts. Again; when the Union scheduled a dance on the Princeton weekend, the inter-House Committee made similar protests. They asked the Union to switch its dance to the Brown weekend, so that the Houses would be certain...
...leveling a stream of earthy adjectives at the men responsible for Plan E, a system of administering civic duties through an appointed city manager, a few shrewd politicians seek to divert attention from both their own incompetence and the achievements of Plan E. Cries of "political domination by a bunch of Tory Rowers" cannot entirely cloud the record. Over a six year period the proponents of Plan E have accomplished a consolidation of four city departments with resultant economies, four playgrounds have been rebuilt and eight more are under construction, the public libraries received 40,000 new books...
...battle for six seats on Cambridge's School Committee seems in danger of being deflected along religious and partisan lines; while the true issue, the City's backward school system, remains skillfully camouflaged. With mournful cries of political domination by a clique of "Tory Rowers," certain bureaucrats hope to divert attention from their incompetence and, by injecting bigotry in the place of analysis, securely fasten themselves to the gravy train. But no amount of rabid oration or pretended martyrdom can totally obscure the indictment against a school program that places education on a political basis and stumbles along...