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...made a thinly veiled attack on President Truman and Democratic Candidate Adlai Stevenson: "It is not hard to find men long on courage and short on brains. But this is no time for boldness without reflection and purpose. It is not hard to find men of fine intellect and faint heart. But this is no time for men of refined and elaborate indecision. The American people," he went on, "have been condemned [by Administration foreign policy] to live in a purgatory of improvisation...
Some changes were obvious. To make sense in 20th century English, "Libertines" became "Freedmen," "feeble minded" was changed to "faint-hearted," and "mortify" to "put to death." All the poetic passages in the Old Testament (40% of the whole including the Psalms) were translated in blank verse...
...main ambition is to "work in a businesslike way. I have no desire to play with Cambridge politics," he states, "and if I have to bend with the political winds, I'm going to have tough sailing." So far, these political winds have been faint rustlings, but observes Curry with a shrewd grin, "maybe I'm on an enforced honeymoon...
...captive China and Tibet, Inner Mongolia, Northern Korea . . . the northern half of Indo-China . . . It has added 500 million people to its arsenal of manpower. Most of these peoples of the Far East have been our friends . . . Through a dismal decade of false starts, fractional measures, loud policies and faint deeds, we have lost them. Again I can hear you say the conscience of America shall never be free until these peoples have opportunity to choose their own path...
...Lotus' observations convinced him of a second point. He did not hear the faint, soft pop of opening petals that has echoed for centuries through Japanese literature. Some years ago on a summer morning, the skeptical scientist dragged recording equipment to the shore of a lotus pond. There he assured himself that the modern flower blooms in silent beauty. Last week he "listened" to a prehistoric plant open to morning sunlight. Smiling till his tiny eyes all but disappeared in his face, he had bad news for sentimentalists: in spite of all that the poets have said, even...