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...most critical U.S. embassy post anywhere in the world today is Saigon-diplomatic frontier not only for the war in Viet Nam but for the longer-range struggle between the U.S. and Communist China. Last week the Saigon job went to a man who knows by first-hand experience just how difficult and demanding it is: named to succeed Ambassador Maxwell Taylor, retiring at 63, was Taylor's own predecessor, Henry Cabot Lodge...
...whole course catalogue, from "American history" through "Welding," offered a really fascinating first-hand glimpse at the knowledge explosion that so confounds scholars today...
...work of Dante. But the rewards of practical labor are meager. The now-defunct Hon. Robert Treat Paine Prize rewarded the best original investigation plus "practical conclusions" of some form of charity work. However, an essay on "The Special Phase of the Labor Question" could be substituted for first-hand investigation. The radicalism of E. M. Forster's reformers was soothed by John Ruskin's writings; The Harvard radical who wants a prize can write an essay on John Ruskin. The Boston Ruskin Club pays $145 for the best...
...Mary Jane-seems to be this year's way among students of preserving the perennial illusion that the younger generation is going to hell. Statistics on the problem are nonexistent, and its extent is tough to gauge. School officials normally ignore it or hush it up; students with first-hand knowledge are prone to boastful exaggeration; arrests are relatively rare...
Markingsteems with quotations from the Bible (principally from Psalms) and from noted mystics like Meister Eckhart. The heavy use of such material raises the question of whether Hammarskjold's mysticism was acquired through first-hand experience or not. But the question is unanswerable. Only someone like Eckhart could determine the genuineness of Hammarskjold's inspiration; the rest of us can merely view this unsuspected facet of his character with surprise-and perhaps admiration...