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This week, for the first time in 118 years of national independence, the people of Venezuela picked a president in a free democratic election. In jungle towns along the Orinoco, in grimy oil settlements on the Caribbean coast and in the flower-lush capital of Caracas, voters by the thousands trudged to the polling places. There they dropped small colored cards* in urns to indicate their choices, then had their fingers stained with indelible ink as a check against voting twice...
...latest flower to blossom in Harvard's literary hothouse is more closely related to the political pamphlet than to the literary magazine. Harvard should have at least one frankly political publication. There is talent to spare to put it out, and there is an open field for such a magazine. But in order to satisfy the need of the College community, the magazine should analyze, marshall, and present the arguments for various political beliefs before it reaches its conclusions. It may and should be partisan; but it should explain the reasons for its stand if it expects to carry...
...That man is truly ethical," he has written, "who shatters no ice crystal as it sparkles in the sun, tears no leaf from a tree, cuts no flower. . . . The farmer who has mown down a thousand flowers in his meadow to feed his cows must be careful on his way home not to strike off in heedless pastime the head of a single flower by the roadside, for he thereby commits a wrong against life without being under the pressure of necessity...
...thin time of it. The newspapers paid little attention to him. Some who met him at parties and receptions described him as a disagreeable young man utterly uninterested in everything and everybody. After the wedding breakfast, while other guests, led by George VI, pelted Philip and Elizabeth with flower petals, Michael held aloof, finally walked away...
...cannot safely say -as long as he sticks to a criticism of their public performance.* Sample, from the Des Moines Leader, describing the Cherry Sisters at the turn of the century: "Erne is an old jade of 50 summers; Jessie is a frisky filly of 40; and Addie, the flower of the family, a capering monstrosity of 35. Their long skinny arms . . . swing mechanically [and wave] frantically at the suffering audience. The mouths of their rancid features opened like caverns, and sounds like the waitings of damned souls issued therefrom...