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...reading will follow a special Christmas dinner at the regular 5:30 to 7 p.m. time. Carol singing will be the final flourish of the holiday program...
Dartmouth and Amherst have expressed their satisfaction at our solution. With a fine diplomatic flourish, Amherst President Charles Cole wrote : "I would say that Judge Linen had beaten Judge Solomon, for he has doubled instead of halved the baby...
...years ago, in The New Democracy, using the jargon of the comrades, Mao wrote: "The world now lives in an era of revolution and war, a new era, where capitalism is definitely dying and socialism is beginning to flourish. In the international environment of the middle of the 20th Century, there are only two ways open to all decent people in the colonies and semi-colonies. They must either go over to the side of the imperialist front or take part in the world revolution. They must choose between these two. There is no other...
...little use for democracy: "Freedom leads to equality, and equality to stagnation-which is death . . . The multitude is never free . . ." The happiest men are to be found in "deserts^ monasteries." It soon becomes apparent, in fact, that Saint-Ex wanted the passion for God and love to flourish in a social framework which would shortly make violent rebels of most men of spirit...
Like many another sensitive man, Saint-Ex had become sick of the human greed and selfishness he saw about him. He affirmed that men can be better than they are, and like many another perfectionist, sought a moral and spiritual climate where goodness could flourish. Halfway through this century which he hated, most men can share Saint-Ex's yearning toward God. It is not likely that they would accept life in his parched heaven...