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...Eastern Front: "Before I became Chancellor, I thought the general staff was like a mastiff which had to be held tight by the collar . . . Since then ... it has consistently tried to impede every action that I have thought necessary . . . It is I who have always had to goad on this mastiff...
...Congress have such firm grass roots they cannot be eradicated. Eisenhower should aim toward the same goal more subtly: by returning to his middle idea he should make it clear he will withhold endorsement from Republicans who actively oppose the main items in his program. Such a statement may goad Congress into some needed action, and will certainly better fulfill the President's role as leader of a nation...
Until the teaching staff of requirement courses begins to approach its work with the enthusiasm due to the authors read, and with a willingness to goad their classes if necessary; and until the students desert their present conviction that the more completely a waste of time a requirement course is the better off they are, the actual nature of the language requirement must remain obscured in the mists of lethargy and stubbornness. Humphrey Fisher...
...therefore, necessarily "advancing with the times" to glorify a spectator sport by use of girl cheerleaders or any other gimmicks. Nor is it advancing in the University's tradition to goad spectators into cheering instead of booing and cheering as they wish. Re-emphasis of cheerleading will have no bearing on the present difficulties of our basketball team, but it may turn the College toward the reincarnation of "rah-rah" it has so fortunately shunned...
...Angel Herrera, 65, Bishop of Málaga. Bishop Herrera, onetime Madrid newspaperman who was ordained at 53, consecrated bishop at 60, believes, like Cardinal Segura, that Spain should be submissive to the church. But he insists that the proper role of the church is to guide, not goad, the Spanish people. Spain's pressing problems, Bishop Herrera holds, are the poverty of her people and the general backwardness of a clergy which, in the main, knows little and cares less about modern social and political problems. Three years ago, Herrera, with the blessing of the Vatican, started...