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...Administration has adamantly refused to be pinned down to any set of standards on which the question may be argued. Rigorous analysis of any explicitly defined defense of the present would reduce it to wool. A position that is only an intuitive judgement of parietal proprieties can be maintained only through fiction and deafness...
...Judgement on whether to allow the South Africans to remain in the Commonwealth turns on whether one feels there is any hope there. Everyone condemns apartheid, and certainly no one at the conference desires to support the tragic status quo in that unhappy land. But cutting South Africa loose would in no way improve its plight. Isolation would worsen the lot of the blacks, since the Afrikaaners would be driven through fear to worse repression, and it would weaken the position of the English-speaking population, the only soil for the seeds of change in the whole country. Severing...
...important point about his famous transformation of the Glee Club is that he did not accomplish it by dictating repertoire or purging those who opposed him. "Doc," as he soon came to be called, felt college men were intelligent enough to have good judgement but had taste plastic enough to be molded. He first improved the quality of the Club's singing, and then persuaded them to try some classical pieces in rehearsal. The first, Mendelssohn's The Huntsman's Farewell, appealed to them so strongly that they agreed to sing it in St. Louis in 1915 before a surprised...
Crimson fans who are at the moment apprehensive about the upcoming day of judgement by the NCAA tournament committee should remember winning the remaining games would leave Harvard with a 19-4-1 record and the Ivy championship. Also losses in B.C.'s guarantee-nothing schedule for the rest of the season, could easily reverse the present ranking, especially since the Crimson has beaten B.C. two out of three times this season...
...once been not so misquoted as misrepresented or misinterpreted by your reporters. In the particular story at issue, for instance, I was reported as saying that the rupturing of diplomatic relations was "unforgivable," which is true, but the context of the reasoning which led me to that admittedly harsh judgement was left out or distorted. What I said was something to this effect: Given the background of provocation and retaliation that has characterised Cuban-American relations, the best one could expect from the new administration, prior to the breaking off of relations, was an unsensational, quiet policy of stopping further...