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...precedent cases that Byrne could cite was one that reached the Supreme Court in 1952, in which Justice Felix Frankfurter established the doctrine of dismissal if Government action "shocks the conscience of civilized men." Byrne, a civilized man, was plainly shocked...
Dong was interviewed in 1967 by Felix Greene, the British filmmaker who produced Inside North Vietnam, which was shown several times this week as part of Vietnam America Friendship Week. Dong seemed youthful and confident as he affirmed his country's determination to continue the fight against the American government...
Military leaders who read poetry and care what young girls think are anomalous to the American viewer. Felix Greene, a British film-maker who made Inside North Vietnam in 1967, documents an entire society of such anomalies. The literacy rate in Vietnam was lower after the French left than before they arrived in the nineteenth century, but North Vietnamese children attend school next to air-raid bunkers. When American bombers are sighted, the teacher bangs a gong and the kids retreat into the shelters. When the alarm is over, they emerge happily, grinning like American kids when the ice cream...
...years that the newspaper of the society's Oregon province has a feature headlined DEATHS?LEAVES?DEPARTURES. The emigrants are not merely from the ranks, either. U.S. Jesuits who have left have included such eminent names as Theologian Bernard Cooke, Maryland Provincial Edward Sponga and former Woodstock College Rector Felix Cardegna. In addition, the number of new recruits has plunged, especially in developed countries. The U.S.?the society's largest national community with 6,600 Jesuits?used to get some 350 novices each year; now it is down to fewer than...
...There has been a dramatic increase in reliance of government on academia as a talent pool. Howard Aiken and Felix Frankfurter were precursors of this increased reliance 35 years ago. Now there is a wide recognition, Bok said, of "how central advanced education is to everything in society." The emphasis on academics in public life means that "professors often have opportunities to work outside the University that did not exist 35 years...