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Looking on, the Peking radio betrayed something akin to sympathy for the U.S. predicament. It no longer called Rhee a U.S. puppet, and even for the first time spoke of the U.S. as a democratic nation. Rhee's actions, said Peking in a July 4 broadcast, constitute "an insult to the spirit of independence and democracy of the American people and their ancestor, Washington." If these nosegays are any index, the Reds are as anxious for a truce as ever - perhaps more...
...Venetian ambassador wangled his release, Casanova went back to Mengs and more adventures. But the long-suffering Mengs soon had enough and asked the great libertine to leave. Says Casanova bitterly in his Memoirs: "To the painter I wrote that I felt that I had deserved the shameful insult he had given me by my great mistake in acceding to his request to honor him by staying at his house ... As a matter of fact, he had only asked me to stay with him to gratify his own vanity...
...letter writer to the CRIMSON reopened the "Dirty Music" controversy about the band's action during the football games. Some complained that the Harvard band should form the letter of the opposing school and play its song. Delcevare King '95 in a letter called it an insult for Harvardmen to sing Yale songs when the Crimson was playing Holy Cross. The band's drum major, William M. Hickey, replied that the writer was "Wrong, wrong as anyone could be." He charged that the band had played a Holy Cross song during its march in, and had formed...
...famous scholars and scientists jump through the hoop of Mr. Dorgan who apparently has never for-gotten his school failures (how many times has he tried the bar examinations?) and swear that they will teach to the best of their ability? Is this not an insult: and if such a pledge is exacted at all should it not come from the profession, as in the case of physicians, and not from a body of politicians? Is it not a tragic farce that the most conscientious profession should get on its knees and swear to the least conscientious (outside of downright...
...Judge McLaughlin's decision is an act of the most despicable bigotry and an insult to the integrity and intelligence of those many Americans who have had the courage to leave behind the mind-dwarfing traditional supernaturalism. The Judge himself has committed a crime against society...