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...historians: "Professor X was thought by '53, on the whole, to be an insensible dullard. Some, however, found him a towering intellect and an insipiring teachers, etc. etc." But what does "on the whole" mean? And is "some" ten, twenty, thirty or forty precent? We are never given any forthright statement of proportions. I do not wish to challenge the good faith of the CRIMSON's writers, but surely, all will agree that phrases like "on the whole" are open to the most varying sorts of interpretation, by editor and reader alike...
...apology did not alter the fact that he was deadset against giving the Marines a bigger role in the nation's defense plans. But before the week was out, a small, uncertain sigh of relief was to run through the Democratic Party; the President, by his forthright if not abject apology, had fixed things-partly, at least. But there was some headshaking...
Better than most he knew the history of the Administration's bewildering policy there: its brushoff of Formosa last January as strategically not worth the risk; its apparently forthright decision on June 27 to defend it; Dean Acheson's spurning, after that, of any alliance with Chiang...
This week Dean Acheson received a joint protest from 14 Latin American envoys, assured them that the U.S. was still their good neighbor. Senator Gillette's forthright recommendations seemed likely to be modified or shelved. As long as coffee sold in U.S. stores around 77? a lb., the latinos would continue to enjoy what one cynical ambassador had called "a Marshall Plan...
Backtalk & Business. His meeting with Wallis Warfield Simpson, at a house party, was hardly love at first sight. But later, visiting Mrs. Simpson's London salon, the Prince was impressed by her ease amid all the heady talk, and by her forthright backtalk ("One of the happier outcomes of the events...