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This is a job which cannot be done through high pressure efforts by governments bureaus; indeed the strength of the Winants derives largely from the circumstance that they are not in government, that they have no axe to grind, that they are just Americans who have paid their own way over to make a personal contribution to friendship between the two peoples...
...plain and fancy living, country and city ways. When the Amish aren't donning their buttonless clothes, "shunning" a miscreant or putting up a barn, the city gal is being ogled by six frighteningly silent Amish youths, or is trying to pump water, churn butter, cook rice and grind sausage all at once-which makes the gayest five minutes in the show...
With its entertainers stretched from one end of Cinemascope to the other, There's No Business Like Show Business bristles with fast-paced song and dance routines that drag only when the projectors grind Marilyn Monroe across the screen. She is usually followed by a drunken Donald O'Connor, intent on being a nimble bad boy who dances with statues after Marilyn tires of the whole business...
After most elections the nation can sit back, sift the results, and say that this and that have been proved. By these standards, Tuesday's balloting was the All-Purpose election. It gave each party's machine enough material to grind for a while-Democrats can say that the Administration is slipping and Republicans can say that the close figures indicate the G.O.P. is very much alive but the fact is that nothing really has been proved. Unemployment, apparently, was enough of an issue to win for the Democrats in Michigan, yet it could not bring them victories...
...except to follow France more or less unwillingly along this path. Perhaps anything is better than the continuation of a mendacious abnegation of responsibility. The "new style" of French diplomacy has the advantage of honesty. Europe has lost nothing but an idea, and it is normal for the daily grind of politics to get along without ideas. There is only one thing wrong with this: Russian policy, which is also certainly not lacking in realism, has never renounced its idea...