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...revenged some day is hardly spot news. Shirer, however, is convinced that the feeling runs wide and deep. As early as 1943, with the war's end still two years off, the feeling of being put upon by the world began creeping into the General Staff's hush-hush memoranda, many of which Shirer quotes practically in full. It reaches a climax in Hitler's absurd will, and is still, says Shirer, an article of faith today. Though expressed repeatedly and in a dozen ways, it adds up to one bleat: we was robbed...
...hush fell over the Yard as James S. Simmons, Dean of the School of Public Health, stepped up to award the degrees in that subject at Commencement ceremonies last week. Maybe a shoemaker should stick to his last, but no doctor should be completely immersed in the test tube...
...country and its future. Indeed, no matter what the proposed amendment may be, any major revision in the nation's constitution deserves consideration of the most exhaustive kind. Instead, this one is being rushed through state legislatures, predominantly Republican, as it was steamrollered through Congress, in a hush-hush and how-dare-you-oppose-this manner. Besides, the playdown given hearings and discussions of the amendment by most of the nation's press is as much responsible for the general indifference and ignorance regarding it as are the political motives of some of its sponsors...
...turnabout, Kootz proudly arranged to show his U.S. abstractionists in Paris' swank Maeght gallery. This week the Paris show closed in a hurt hush. The critics had not been kind. Said the influential Arts: "Is this exhibition ... to show us that abstract painting is no longer a secret in the U.S.? This art form cannot surprise or shock us, for we are familiar with it, but it must have quality, which is certainly lacking. . . ." Added Les Lettres Françaises: "One could imagine that these painters had not even studied the original canvases but had contented themselves with examining...
...Fred's superiors that he was worth the money. He spent most of his time with an inkwell on his chin, a pencil on his nose, and four or five books flying from hand to hand. When not so occupied, he would shatter the institution's leathern hush by bawling: "Say, did you hear about the man who dreamed he was eating Shredded Wheat and woke up to find the mattress half gone...