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...except "exhaustion, due to love or study." Miss Sayre, herself a 'Cliffe "a few years ago," denies the existence of a representative student. The college itself, however, is summarized in the first sentence as having "no faculty, no campus, and few rules," and existing only as a "climate for fervent emotions...
...These fervent emotions are suggested in the six-page article by a series of disconnected impressions: the "violent pace" of daily life, "exhaustively faithful" couples, "repellent" dormitories, and sympathies "flying in all directions." A Radcliffe student "must be bright enough to do well in her courses while she performs Cressida or Mother Courage and breaks three engagements to marry...
Even the strong haters and fervent admirers were disrespectful to the issue. Boys who wallow in the same linen all year or wash it in the Charles considered themselves superior to the depot system...
Less Than Reverence. For Nasser, as the Middle East's most fervent apostle of Arab unity, the revolt was a crushing blow. Not only was the U.A.R. in ruins, and with it Nasser's grandiose dreams of a superstate encompassing the whole Arab world. Nasser's myth would also be badly bruised in the eyes of millions who idolized him as a crusader against colonialism. By its impassioned rejection of Egyptian "tyranny," the revolution could only deepen the suspicion that under the guise of pan-Arabism Nasser pursues a Pharaonic imperialism. After Nasser's fulminations against...
...middle '20s, the youthful Vietnamese Communist, Ho Chi Minh, had formed his "Young Vietnamese Revolutionary League," was sending agents and propaganda south to foment trouble in Viet Nam itself. Soon Ho's products were showing up by the bushel in Diem's area. Diem himself was already a fervent nationalist, but he was shocked by the extremist cries for violence. Energetically he went to work arresting local Communists, gathering material for a 15-page anti-Communist booklet, which he distributed throughout his area. Rising rapidly to become a provincial governor at 28, Diem went to work on the French, hoping...