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Brazil's 100,000-man army likes to think of itself as the "great mute," strong in power, silent in politics. Unlike many Latin American armed forces, it has yet to foist a military dictatorship on the country. In a century and a half, it has overthrown a Portuguese king, two Brazilian emperors, a president, a dictator, and even a would-be military strongman. But every coup, the brass likes to boast, was a direct translation of the popular will. True to tradition, the army today is an all-too-faithful reflection of the nation-divided, discontented and quarrelsome...
...solar plexus and, well, the upper thigh. They are written for warm-blooded heterosexuals. I have no message for suffering humanity and, though I was bullied at school and lost my virginity like so many of us used to in the old days, I have never been tempted to foist these harrowing personal experiences on the public...
...play about the kind of judgments we are likely to make with insufficient knowledge of one another's motives, and, more importantly, with insufficient knowledge of our own intentions. These judgments have nothing to do with any rigid rules of human procedure which the playwright is trying to foist off on us. Rather they involve the immediate, second-to-second perceptions and judgments by which we decide within ourselves about the character of our fellow human beings. The nature of the Good and Evil on which these judgments are based (either by us or by Strindberg) is no more Nietzschean...
...chaos so candidly. It is all very well to follow Martin Buber in advocating free and untrammeled dialogue between human beings; nevertheless, no one ought to have the right to use a public forum for raving mistakenly (and without any solid basis) about other men's religion or to foist his own halfbaked and embarrassingly intimate worldview on strangers. The University provides, at great expense, an outlet for students who need this kind of audience...
...patient and efficient chairman, rather than a bold initiator in Dag Hammarskjold's mold. U.S. Ambassador Adlai Stevenson believes that he will be "very sturdy" in protecting his office against Russian attempts to undermine it. Throughout the long succession crisis, U Thant resisted all Soviet maneuvers to foist troika schemes on the U.N. Secretariat...