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During election campaigns, U.S. newspapers often run a "battle page" on which they let both parties argue their respective cases. Last week the New York Herald Tribune found itself trapped into running a battle page that it had never planned. The Republican Trib announced that it would run a impart series on Page One as a "basic statement of the Administration's position at the start of the autumn campaign." Among the authors: Vice President Nixon, Attorney General Brownell, Treasury Secretary George Humphrey. More than 100 other papers thought the series such a good idea that they bought...
...sorrowfully forced to admit that humanity's experience during its unceasing and glorious march across the thunderous pages of history should impart to the citizens of our great Republic this enduring truth: "Never underestimate the power of a clich...
...covering 27 years of Sculptress Hepworth's work, provoked some murmurs of dismay from the critics. The Manchester Guardian complained that her carvings were "cold austerities [which do] not rouse any emotion much stronger than deep respect." But the Observer hailed the skill with which "she contrives to impart [life] to her obdurate materials." One thing that the show demonstrated clearly was that she has moved sharply away from her early preoccupation with natural forms toward a colder, more mathematical expression of idea and feeling. It also showed her close artistic affinity with her fellow Yorkshireman, Henry Moore...
...Professor Irving Babbitt, he felt that "too many modern teachers commit the error of teaching students to see the evils and shortcomings of society without at the same time pointing out the evils that exist in them [selves]." The purpose of liberal education was not merely to impart knowledge; it was also to "transform personality by transforming minds ... But they [cannot be] transformed ... by materials that do not peak directly to the human soul...
Diplomacy in Israel last week had a sort of Gilbert & Sullivan air about it. The Foreign Ministry was in Jerusalem, the ambassadors were in Tel Aviv, and neither side would visit the other. If Israeli Foreign Minister Moshe Sharett wanted to impart important information to Britain or the U.S., he bypassed their emissaries 40 miles away and sent word halfway around the world to his ambassadors to go see the Foreign Office or the State Department. The only direct, official link between the foreign minister and the diplomats was a lone assistant protocol officer left behind in Tel Aviv...