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Brief excerpt: "The river looked miles and miles across. The moon was so bright I could a counted the drift-logs that went a-slipping along, black and still, hundreds of yards out from shore. Everything was dead quiet, and it looked late, and smelt late ... It was kind of solemn, drifting down the big still river, laying on our backs looking up at the stars, and we didn't ever feel like talking loud, and it warn't often that we laughed, only a little kind of a low chuckle. We had mighty good weather...
Said Acheson, as he submitted the plan to the General Assembly: "Before us lies opportunity for action which can save the hope of peace . . . Before us also lies opportunity for drift, for irresolution, for effort feebly made . . . The choice is ours . . . There is no longer any question: Will the United Nations survive? . . . This question has been answered ... by United Nations action against aggression in Korea. Blood is thicker than...
...These Days? Acheson's speech had its points of wisdom, but it also contained plenty of evidence that he still clings to a policy of drift in Asia, still cherishes hopes of conciliating Russia. In labeling Russia the main "obstacle to peace," he used remarkably kid-gloved language, e.g.: "The use by Soviet leaders of the international Communist movement . . . has been a great source of trouble in the world." Acheson also announced that the U.S. would ask the Assembly to decide the vital issue of Formosa, and that all "concerned and interested parties" should be invited to have their...
...English soccer pros who occasionally drift down to the practice field to look at scrimmages shock his head as he watched the "new" game a few days ago. "It'll ruin soccer," he remarked sadly...
Until the late Renaissance, European artists devoted most of their talents to religious art; then the secular tide set in. Today few artists even think of painting for churches. Pope Pius XII made an attempt to reverse the drift three years ago with an encyclical proclaiming that "modern art should be given free scope in the due and reverent service of the church and the sacred rites, provided that [the artists] preserve a correct balance between styles, tending neither to extreme realism nor to excessive symbolism . . ." Last week he welcomed 300 artists and art authorities from 23 countries...