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...dedicated Republican workers for sound government, and each such worker must be properly joined with his next higher superior until the entire party can operate as a unit. We need intelligent, personable, dedicated and energetic leaders. From one election to the next, each of us must help to inform and to recruit and on every election day make certain that all Republicans and all the people that we have reached and educated will be on hand to cast their votes...
Schwarz starts with the laudable premise that Americans should be informed about Communism; if they understand it, they will be better able to combat it. "In the battle against Communism, there is no substitute for accurate, specific knowledge. Ignorance is evil and paralytic." Schwarz therefore sets out to inform-and in some ways he succeeds admirably. In his book, his treatment of such a difficult subject as dialectical materialism is a model of instructive popularization...
...come into the fields and work with you. If there's no work to be done, they'll even wash out your rice bowl for you." Added another peasant in the delta: "The Viet Cong live like us, look like us, share our homes. How can we inform on them...
...Digest began life by compiling its entire contents from other periodicals and nurturing an evangelical ambition "to inform, inspire and entertain." For its first eight years, the magazine subsisted on previously printed wares, simplified and condensed to accommodate Wallace's notion of suitable brevity or a reader's attention span. Even today, the Digest frequently shears the lead paragraph from reprinted articles, on the assumption that the author is only clearing his throat. Both in selecting and cutting, Wallace's hand was sure from the start. With only minor amendment, much of the February 1922 issue...
...traditional at Harvard exams that students suffering the tortures of the damned be permitted an occasional respite to visit the lavatory or partake in the pleasures of a cigarette. Apparently, however, the Registrar's Office has neglected to inform this year's proctors of these basic human rights...