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...legitimate ambitions are primly restricted: according to his colleagues, he must do whatever the majority decides is right, and according to the woman he loves, he must subordinate his career to "a life built around his children." In plain English, the moviemakers are saying that Englishmen should be both social irresponsibles and matriarchal vassals. They may be right, but if they are, God save the Queen...
...live the Ghegs, the tallest men in the Balkans; in the south are the medium-sized Tosks. All Albanians-whether Ghegs or Tosks-have had a bad name among their neighbors. The ancient Greeks cursed them as brigands, the Romans as pirates. But some visitors brought out favorable reports. Englishmen think the Albanians resemble Scots Highlanders, probably because they wear white kilts and have a moody Celtic temperament that inclines them toward always marching off to battle. A less romantic observer, Stalin, thought Albanians "rather backward and primitive," but agreed that "they can be as faithful...
Criticism Is Not Enough. It is not enough, said the President, for the college-educated to lend their talents to deploring present solutions. "Was John Milton to conjugate Greek verbs in his library when the liberty of Englishmen was in peril?'' Prince Bismarck found, the President recalled, that 'one-third of the students of German universities broke down from overwork. Another third broke down from dissipation, and the other third ruled Germany.' " Kennedy left it for each student to choose his third...
...action comfort for the void of his thought, where Don Juan seeks in women met the woman never found, and Don Quixote, spear in hand, gallops to force reality to rise above itself. This Europe must be born. And she will, when Spaniards will say 'our Chartres,' Englishmen 'our Cracow,' Italians 'our Copenhagen'; when Germans say 'our Bruges,' and step back horror-stricken at the idea of laying murderous hands on it. Then will Europe live, for then it will be that the spirit that leads history will have uttered the creative...
...Norway, the youngest among them 50 years old, performed precision calisthenics to the strains of Now Is the Hour. A shorts-clad German woman contingent got a big hand for an exhibition of ball throwing, even though they several times knocked the medicine ball into the orchestra seats. Young Englishmen flew nimbly on and off the gymnastic horses; 17 lovely young women from the Unifed Arab Republic banged sticks in unison; a troupe of muscle-flexing Danish maids rolled about the stage so sensuously that some of the crowd, reminded of other occasions, were moved to encouraging shouts of "Take...