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...rule was doomed by the Czarevich's hemophilia: it put the imperial pair in the oily hands of Rasputin, whose prayers they believed would heal their more than fragile son Alexis. Rasputin not only destroyed the morale of the aristocracy, he also made it impossible for Nicholas to heed sensible advice until it was too late. And he fatally fractured the image of the Czar in the mind of the masses. The imperial pair saw a calumniated saint in Rasputin; the people, in the words of a monarchist member of the Duma, saw "the beastly, drunken unclean face...
Shadows & Warts. Sometimes the Post Office does heed its mail. When last year's 5? George Washington brought protests, the department agreed that "the stamp needs a bit of face lifting." Last month it doctored the shadows and warts in the design...
...members of the court-martial have usually seen combat themselves, rarely sympathize with a man who uses his weapon too readily. Nor do they often heed pleas-like Wilkerson's-that "I was just following orders." The Uniform Code of Military Justice, mindful of the Nürnberg trials, clearly states that a subordinate is not justified in following an order if it "is such that a man of ordinary sense and understanding would know it to be illegal." Moreover, every U.S. serviceman arriving in Viet Nam is given a printed card entitled "The Enemy in Your Hands...
...shan't reveal how it's done. Suffice it to say that we are the victim of an ingenious, even brilliant, stunt. But we are so concerned over the prestigiation and sleight-of-body that we can give no heed to the play. We have become watchers at a mere carnival side-show. The audience's natural reaction to all this is recounted at great and amusing length in Walter Kerr's review for the New York Times. As Keats did not quite say, "Was it aversion, or a waking Dream?" At any rate, as he did say, "Fled...
There is also the question of how much power the Federation will have to represent before the University will heed its demands. This is not a problem of numbers so much as it is a problem of militancy. With the organization in its present loose form, the University may not be required to take its requests seriously. If the administration chose to politely ignore the Federation, the leadership would have to confront the tough question: what do we have to do to make them listen...