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...Annapolis, four-star Admiral Arthur Radford, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, last week exhorted graduating midshipmen to avoid making "a fetish of tradition" and to remember always that the Navy, Army and Air Force "must think as a team, work as a team, and, when necessary, fight as a team." At Arlington National Cemetery on Memorial Day, Army Secretary Wilbur Brucker overflowed with tributes to the "magnificent Navy" and the "great Air Force with intrepid pilots." Other resonant military voices joined Brucker and Radford in three-part harmony-but they failed to drown out the dissonant undertones...
Governor Adams set briskly about streamlining the state's cumbersome administrative machinery. He succeeded, but not without a hard fight that he partly brought upon himself. One of the members of the reorganization commission was regularly late to its meetings. Adams, who makes a fetish of punctuality, began railing at the late comer. The man was later on hand as majority leader of the state legislature to fight the reorganization at nearly every turn. From such political enemies, Adams earned the nickname "One-Term Sherm." He seemed, however, to do all right with the voters...
Coach Halas, never satisfied, was always practicing new tricks. He was one of the first to make a fetish of studying post-game movies. "I never realized how thorough those movie sessions are," said one Chicago sportswriter, "until I saw the Bears' staff screening a film. They ran one play over and over?30 times?without saying a word. Finally Assistant Coach Luke Johnsos said, 'It's the goddam guard,' and the meeting was over...
...Education recommended that our schools 'help develop the art of dissent.' What is commendable in dissent as such? Gerald K. Smith and William Z. Foster are both dissenters. What we require is neither assent nor dissent but independent judgment. It is just as idiotic to make a fetish of dissent as of assent." Hook's summing-up: "The task of education is not to produce conformists or nonconformists but intelligent men and women who will see through slogans and who will take responsible positions on current problems of importance, unafraid to agree or disagree with anybody...
...marches through all the pomp, circumstance, sweat and tears of three generations of 20th century Britain. Playwright Chad Boothroyd, the hero, loves Rose Garland. Rose, a rather dreary dreg of tea, is invariably presented to the reader in a gown of crimson silk, which invariably seems to have a fetish effect upon Chad. Ultimately, Chad gets Rose, but only after she 1) lives with Eustace Hawke, a sensational poet with more than an overtone of Rupert Brooke about him, and 2) goes through a loveless marriage with Billy Pascoe, a lowly rustic who becomes England's greatest atomic scientist...