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Despite massive discontent, the Congress Party has never really had a goad in the Lok Sabha. Disgruntled elements within Congress are loath to leave the sheltering paternalism of the party, which benevolently permits them the fruits of patronage and influence peddling. The only coherent opposition has been the Communist Party, whose influence is greater than its 30 seats in Parliament suggest. Nowadays the Communists generally support the Congress Party's left-wing candidates, including Menon, oppose only the right-wingers. Nehru has occasionally swatted the Communists for "having their thoughts outside India," but is less hard on them than...
RADITZER, by Pefer Motthiessen. The title figure of this unusual war novel is a devious sniveler who is an irritation and a danger to the men around him, but who, by a claim based subtly on weakness, is able to coax and goad an exasperated stronger man into protecting him. The ending is powerful, the entire book impressive...
...beginning of last summer and has dominated the news since.") But at its current price of ten cents, Tocsin's forum will never reach beyond a very select minority. All undergraduate pamphleteers would do well to remember that they are writing for a relatively well-informed audience. Goading the masses is not a proper Tocsin function, though urging concerned Harvard students to goad them may well...
Made'em recoil as they would from a goad...
...with fear. In the near future such things may recur. The Supreme Court has given the clearest indication that legal bulwarks against Congressional committees are not enough. Men interested in preventing what Black calls government by intimidation had best look to Congress, and--slight as the chances now seem--goad it into leashing its own committees...