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...Henry D. Fetter '71 of YPSL said his group's petition is running ahead of the SDS petition also being circulated now in House dining halls...
...when the unclean shall be no more, what were modesty but a fetter and a fouling of the mind? --Kahlil Gibran The Prophet...
Most Seychellois are still not convinced that independence is for them, but René is making progress. Through his own newspaper, The People, occasional manifestoes ("To We Who Have Not Yet Broken the Colonial Chains That Fetter Us"), and stumping tours of the islands, he has built SPUP up into what for the Seychelles is a powerful political force. At last count, 1,961 islanders-more than the total vote during the last election-were paying 10?-a-month membership dues...
...Osborne is no literary Peter the Hermit. His fervor is complemented by a first-rate independent mind. For all the obvious intensity with which he holds his beliefs, he has no all-embracing doctrine that makes his views on every question predictable, and that serves him as a fetter as well as a crutch. He is a confirmed socialist, but he has acknowledged that "Socialism is an experimental idea, not a dogma." (I quote from a published symposium entitled Declaration, which contains essays by Osborne and Kenneth Tynan which are worth reading for anybody who cares about contemporary theatre...
...soul . . ." Under the Whips. Some, like Julius Leber, a Social-Democratic member of the Reichstag, spoke in tones of courageous epigram in which Americans can hear an echo of Nathan Hale: "I have only one head, and what better cause to risk it for than this?" Others, like Fetter Moen, an Oslo insurance man who, at 43, found him self under the steel whips of the Gestapo, said the simple truth. In pinpricks on a roll of paper, Moen wrote: "Was interrogated twice. Was whipped . . . Am terribly afraid of pain. But no fear of death...