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(5) Harvard should proceed with the planning and execution on its own moderate, long-term civil defense program, without being governed by the possible fluctuations of any Federal or local civil defense program.
In Eichmann's case, Buber added, execution would nurture another antichrist myth and permit a second-rate individual to symbolize the tragedy of European Jewry; his death would only offer easy, vicarious expiation to the guilty.*
Pleading for his life, Giovannini finally promised to sing Salan's praise in print. The "commandant" stayed his execution and returned him to the Aletti with a message for all twelve Italian newsmen in Algiers: leave, or die. Eleven left by the next available plane. The twelfth, Nicola Caracciolo...
Those readers who insist upon filing contemporary writers to the pigeonhole of a convenient tradition will have no difficulty in detecting the intellectual habits of the school of Donne in such poems as "The Value of Gold." To expand categories slightly, Mr. Gunn's whole milieu resembles that early-seventeenth...
"Nor can large technical labs be kept fully alert on a stand-by basis waiting for some other nation to break an agreement. This is not merely difficult or inconvenient. We have explored this alternative thoroughly and found it impossible of execution."