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Shortly before 1 p.m., Dirksen and Percy escorted Barry to the Grecian Room, presented him to the delegates. Wearing a PERCY FOR GOVERNOR button, Goldwater rambled for a few minutes about the need for party unity and harmony, especially mentioned his civil rights vote, and said: "I will accept the civil rights plank of the platform, and as President will uphold and enforce the civil rights law. As President, I would want an Attorney General who would enforce the law. My Attorney General would uphold the law or I would get another one." He said that segregation is "foolishness...
...When I read the story of Pele, the "criminal" donkey [Nov. 15], I was reminded of a similar story of a persecuted donkey by the German author Christolph Martin Wieland. In Geschichte der Abderiten, he intended to point out absurdities of small-town government and life. A Grecian dentist named Struthion and a donkey driver nearly came to blows over whether or not Struthion might stand in the shadow of his rented donkey since he had not rented the shadow as well. Struthion felt that the donkey came with the shadow...
...years, his eyes filled with tears as he called the award an honor for Greece "for which so many generations have struggled, striving to maintain what is still alive in its long tradition." Indeed, it was true, as in Seferiades' Memory II, of two friends talking amid Grecian seaside ruins...
Despite the brave words and actions, NUSAS can, however, do little to prevent the Grecian tragedy of South Africa from playing to the final act. For the most part, the principled stand of NUSAS, while demanded by the conscience and idealism of its members, can only be symbolic...
...speeches almost line by line. Your reviewer had an unfair advantage--the great good luck to have studied the text in Sidgwick's edition under the instruction of Professor Herbert Weir Smyth, one of the living authorities, if not the foremost, on the dramas of Aeschylus. More than one Grecian who has been thoroughly immersed in a study of the Agamemnon has later testified that it was a major experience of his life...