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...seems to me most grievous that at this time we can do little else but wish the Poujadists successes in their horrible campaign. As Goya said, "The dream of reason produces monsters." So has it been for France, the homeland of reason...
Would that we had a man of his drive to protest our own gross and grievous tax injustices. No less than in France, we need a leader to spearhead concerted revolt against the onerous, noxious, outrageous tax burden imposed...
...guilty of giving away five state-owned trucks, and sentenced him to two years in jail and five years' suspension of his civil rights, i.e., his all-important right to run for governor of Sao Paulo in 1958 or President again in 1960. The latter penalty was a grievous blow for Adhemar; he ran a close third in last October's na tional election, racked up a solid 25.7% of the total vote, and was already organizing for the 1960 presidential campaign...
...dangers of intellectual pride are many and grave, and we do well to discipline ourselves and our students in the moral and ascetical controls of this as of all other vices. But the dangers of intellectual stagnation are not less grievous both for individual personality and for the common good. The wrath of the stupid has laid waste the world quite as often as has the craft of the bright...
...truth seems to be even more grievous. What the published record does better than either memoirists or events could do is to unveil the "spirit of Yalta," which showed itself before Yalta and is not dead yet. The mark of this spirit is a stubborn refusal to face political reality. From beginning to end of the Yalta record there is an almost total absence of recognition that justice is the only enduring restraint upon power, the only basis for order. On the American side in the fateful days of conference in the Crimea, there were vague dreams, but an almost...