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...readers of the biography may be startled to find some very French notions of Lafayette's role in the Revolutionary War; e.g., there is an implicit assumption that it was primarily a French-British war, and that only the loss of Canada to the British ensured that the British would lose the Thirteen Colonies to the Americans (because the colonists no longer feared French domination). Even more at odds with the U.S. notion, the French biographers insist that Freemasonry played a big role in the 1776 upheaval. Lafayette, they report, was distrusted by Washington until he became a member...
...leaders. Down they went in their hip boots, sloshing around in a swamp of doubletalk, and throwing little bits of misinformation behind them, like cracker crumbs, for those who tried to follow them. But they were not very helpful guides for those who anxiously sought answers to the questions implicit in Khrushchev's historic attack on Stalin at the 20th Party Congress (TIME, June...
...modal progressions, cast in big thick chords insensitively connected. There is nothing particularly cerebral in his style. Little is said. The same applies to the Canons. There-part canon at the unison or octave is difficult to write, since the harmonies during the imitations are somewhat limited to those implicit in the statements. The problem of gaining tonal variety is hardly met in Austin's canons; their only virtue is smooth voice writing...
...some the Bloemfontein decision may have seemed an admission of defeat. But the conclusion was not so much a capitulation as a turning-point. In the causes and implicit opinions underlying it are seen the roots of the successes and problems of Harvard astronomy today--the expanding research facilities, the significant studies, and the thoroughly successful graduate program, and also the inadequacy of some present facilities, the insufficient size of the Astronomy faculty, the pressure of administrative work, and the issue of the adequacy of undergraduate instruction...
...supported our foreign policies over the fifteen years has thus far largely conceived of them as a series of arrangements which will fend off the aggressive and intrusive forces in the world outside and leave us free to work out our own American destiny in our own way. Implicit in such a concept is the persistent conviction that foreign affairs, except when war is imminent, are largely a marginal consideration...