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...same. While the U.N. had been marking time (pending the outcome of the U.S. elections), the Jews had been busy making history. Rickety truces were now beside the point; sanctions had become impracticable. Last week, the Security Council, readjusting its sights, sat down to catch up on its homework...
Roger Lemelin, himself the son of a mulot, has drawn, in The Town Below, a thickly atmospheric portrait of St. Sauveur. He wrote it on the family kitchen table, while his numerous brothers & sisters did their homework on the other end. Lemelin loves the vivid, sharp-tongued mulots but at times he is overcome with despair over their backwardness and superstitions...
Bernard Shaw on schoolkids' homework: "If they required such overtime, day in and day out all the year round, from the Prime Minister, the Lord Chief Justice or the Astronomer Royal, they would be certified for a mental hospital. It would kill me in a week...
...they would only realize that and trust each other, we should get along better." The accents of the New York Daily News say: "Look out, bud; they're going to gyp you." The Times says: "It's all very difficult, but with close attention to the homework, we may figure it out." Does TIME say: "It's a dreadful and wonderful world; some of it makes sense, some nonsense; to tell which is which is what a man has a mind...
...Humanité's solution: "A law for the material and moral protection of our child's press." To twist home the point, the editors ran a two-column cut of a handsome, curly-haired boy doing his homework under lamplight. No comics were in sight, but the caption read: "Is this studious little boy to be the prey of Yankee journalism, the murderer of youthful minds...