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...general suspicion Harvard has here succeeded in keeping its head. Far outweighing the doubtful benefit of conditioning a few pacifists would have been the considerable loss of freedom that such a move of necessity entails. If we hope to avoid ruthless, indiscriminatory suppression, we must be as liberal toward harmless minorities as we are stern in our opposition to dangerous ones...
...Faces East. Britain has long shown India two different faces. One face has been ruthlessly imperialist. The harshness of this face can scarcely be exaggerated. During the Mutiny of 1857, the last widespread, violent revolt against the British Raj, Britons slaughtered harmless elderly Hindus of both sexes by the score (and were sometimes slaughtered themselves by the sepoys-see cut, p. 28). They seized Moslems, whose religion forbids contact with pork, and sewed them into pig skins before killing them. They tied some rebellious sepoys to the muzzles of cannon, and then fired the cannon. As late...
...filmed as they might be. Miss Grable's effectiveness is somewhat marred by the necessities of a plot, and Thomas Mitchell is wasted on a part entirely devoid of the depth that is requisite for an outstanding Mitchell performance. In the face of the drawbacks, the movie combines several harmless tunes with the purely physical efforts of Jack Oakie to be funny...
...enter the armed forces after graduation. They deserve a send-off. Morever these last exercises means a lot to some of us, and to our friends and relatives, even if it is only a chance to strut and be the center of attention for a few hours. Such is harmless and trivial, but very necessary and dear to men. Sincerely, George J. Grindle...
...replace "G. W. T. W."-is the story of the hectic convalescence period of a notorious overgrown child prodigy and man of letters who finds himself forced to spend a few weeks in the home of a harmless Midwestern family who really didn't deserve it. Between efforts to run his unwilling host's family, a prodigious and somewhat weird literary activity, and a passion for making himself disliked, our hero unleashes a stream of wisecracks and stream a mass of bewildering situations that hasn't been matched...