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...populace. An estimated 4,000 propaganda squads follow Red guerrilla units into villages. The Front even publishes 30 crude newspapers. New fly sheets appear daily, accusing the Americans of everything from introducing whores into Buddhist monasteries to gouging out, frying and eating children's eyeballs. The Front uses harsher methods: more than 10,000 local government officials have been assassinated in the long war, usually by beheading...
...absolute. But these extravagant claims tend to make a reader dismiss the book completely when the boasts are not fulfilled. And while the book is not the key to Shakespeare's life and works that Rowse would have us believe, it is hardly the worthless drivel that his harsher critics profess...
...should have known it. Yet the verdict on Laval must ultimately be moral. Again and again, to preserve its identity as a government of France, Vichy had to order Frenchmen to imprison and deport other Frenchmen in order to keep the Germans from moving in and imposing even harsher demands. Does the hope of saving five men justify the death of one? Did France have a right to salvage what it could from the 1940 debacle at the expense of its allies...
Where the strikebound New York Times still appeared* the paper admitted that Kennedy made "exhilarating" listening. But the Times was not exhilarated: "There is some danger that the euphoria thus generated may tend to eclipse the harsher side of reality." Kennedy's rosy picture of things, concluded the Times, was "too good to be quite true." The Providence Journal challenged his logic: "How a President facing such a big deficit can stand before Congress advocating more spending and lower taxes and call his program 'fiscally responsible' is more than we can understand...
...speech but out of sheer gratitude for the building. Architectural magazines hailed McGregor Center as "delightful" and "refreshing," and the A.I.A. gave Yamasaki another of its First Honor awards. A Bit Slaphappy. As Yamasaki's body of work grew bigger, the autocritical facility of the architectural profession grew harsher - often with Yamasaki leading the pack. Critics declared the soaring interior of the Reynolds Metals Co. Building, which won a third A.I.A. First Honor Award, an impressive success; but they denounced the exterior grille, made of thousands of interlocking aluminum circles, as "costume jewelry." For Detroit's Northwest Y.W.C.A...