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...Vietcong receive some support from North Vietnam, but not enough to keep them alive and expanding in the face of government forces at least ten times as numerous. The fiercest fighting is south of Saigon, hundreds of miles from the North Vietnamese border and the end of the Ho Chi Minh trail, the supposed supply route. Even the American commander in the country, General Paul D Harkins, has conceded that the Vietcong are virtually self-sustaining...
When the Congress Party achieved its landslide victory in India's latest general election 15 months ago, the fiercest critics of Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru and former Defense Minister Krishna Menon were swept out of office. But the government's clumsy handling of the Chinese invasion last October gave new hope to the shattered non-Communist opposition. The hope was well founded. In the past fortnight, three of Nehru's most acid-tongued foes have scored overwhelming by-election victories over hand-picked Congress candidates for the Lok Sabha, lower house of Parliament...
What saddened Kazantzakis' life, however, strengthened his art. His experiences steeled his poet's nerves, shaped the hard philosophy of his later masterpieces, The Odyssey and The Last Temptation of Christ. Life is ceaseless combat, Kazantzakis learned, and the poet's fight is the fiercest of all: to translate experience into words, to "transform flesh into spirit...
...benches, smashing railroad cars, tipping Volkswagens, and rending fences. Then off to nearby Westminster Choir College, where from dormitory windows some of the girls defended their honor by tossing out panties and others by tossing out potted plants. When the bonfires cooled next morning, 14 of Princeton's fiercest Tigers were booked and bailed. "Shocking," said Princeton President Robert F. Goheen. whose wrought-iron fence was shorter by 30 ft. after the rumpus. Philosophized Governor Hughes: "It's spring, and the sap begins to run." The annual undergraduate sugaring-off rites scorched the ivy elsewhere in the league...
Some of the greatest individuals the world has known dedicated their works ad majorem Dei gloriam. But it was really for the greater glory of man that they recreated the heavens and the earth in their paintings, molded the fiercest and the softest forms as if marble had become wax, and folded the world into their ledgers. For, as Will Durant said of the Renaissance, "first of all it took money, smelly bourgeois money...