Word: georgians
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...dream of the Yale Bowl, put on a show that made the U.S. collegiate spirit look limp. Occasion: the Soviet Union jutbol (soccer) championship final between Moscow's red-jerseyed Spartak eleven (made up of cooperative workers) and the blue-jerseyed Dynamo team from Tiflis (who represented the Georgian Republic's interior ministry...
...clapboard torture house, built by the Japs on the campus of Shanghai American School, was gone; its victims' screams no longer echoed down Avenue Pétain in the city's old French quarter. But over the Georgian school buildings flew a motheaten U.S. flag; S.A.S. was in session again...
...Utopia, or the [abnormal] life of a primitive .. . insanity on the one hand and lunacy on the other. . . . If I were now to rewrite the book, I would offer a third alternative . . . the possibility of sanity . . . in a community of exiles and refugees.*... Economics would be decentralist and Henry-Georgian, politics Kropotkinesque and cooperative. Science and technology would be used as though, like the Sabbath, they had been made for man. . . . Religion would be the conscious and intelligent pursuit of man's Final End . . . the transcendent Godhead...
Lowell, who got Yaleman Edward Harkness to endow the magnificent Georgian houses along the Charles River (see cut), was not very tactful with many alumni. He had a habit of throwing their letters into the wastebasket unanswered...
...very sorry to say this but for those Georgian citizens there's but one solution: five years' occupation by Nazis. That would probably show them the resemblance between those Nazi beasts and the Georgian democratic beasts...