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Perhaps no man personifies what Harrison Salisbury calls "the integration of English life and its whole national being within politics" than Michael Foot. Now head of Britain's Labour Party, and a man whose wealth of experience--newspaper editor, literary scholar, political columnist, book critic, and the most respected orator in Britain--he should make the United States thoroughly embarrassed at the previous occupations of her last three presidents: acting, peanut farming, and modeling (yes, Gerald Ford was a fashion model back in the 1930s...
...there is an entire room which carries, and honors, the name--The Wedgwood Room. Josiah's words were, at last, prophetic, when he said in his Experiment Book, "I saw the field was spacious, and the soil was good, as to promise an ample recompense to any who should labour diligently in its cultivation...
THIS BOOK might be more aptly titled More Than You Ever Wanted to Know About the Left and Were Afraid to Ask. Because it's all here, everything from Truman's campaign against the Left and labour in 1946 through freedom riders of the fifties, the Black Power movement and the New Left of the sixties, the abortion issue and women's movement of the seventies. All you could want and more, if you can take it--the struggles and reactions and hatreds and dirty deals to on and on. "Did we really do such terrible things to the Left...
...Harlem-Yorkville district. Marcontonio was perhaps the most effective and controversial radical ever to sit in the U.S. House of Representatives--one of the only politicians ever to include the Communist Party in his coalition of supporters and still win elections. Lader also ran successfully on Marcantonio's American Labour Party ticket in 1948 and later organized a Reform Democratic movement in his old district in an attempt to carry on Marcantonio's work after the Congressman's defeat in 1950. Lader's multitudinous works include a biography of Margaret Sanger that made him an early spokesman for population control...
Robert C. Bergenheim, a former trustee and now vice president for labour and public relations, said yesterday, "The vote of the faculty did not make a deep impression, if it made one at all, on administrators or Dr. Silber particularly...