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Aside from possible benefits of a "listening post" within China, the offer of recognition would also provide a lever for negotiations. The British mistakenly extended recognition immediately, without seeking anything in return. Times have changed since China's rebuff to Britain; an offer of U.S recognition today would probably meet with Pciping's acceptance, especially since recognition would bring U.N. admission one step closer to Mao's government...
...there are the popular skits about wholesome families, presumably model Christian families; some of them are the best argument for celibacy advanced since the Middle Ages. I would never have believed that anything could be stickier than some of the soap operas, but religion has outdone even Lever Brothers. The difficult art of Christian family life is reduced to little moralisms and pleasantries, and to the cheerful conclusion that it pays in the end . . . Religion is introduced as a fragment of ritual, or a moralistic cliche, or an offstage voice quoting Scripture in a mellifluous voice...
...Manhattan. Procter & Gamble, Lever Bros, and Colgate-Palmolive Co. estimated that they would spend this year a total of $64 million on TV to sell soap. The National Council of Churches earmarked $1,405,000 to sell religion over radio...
...loose the commuters' attraction to the house system would take a lever the Administration apparently lacks. A dean cannot smile at the commuters and tell them the houses aren't really very much, while advertising to the rest of the country that the house system is "one of Harvard's finest features." The policy in the past few years, then, has been to give Dudley a series of improvements in an attempt to satisfy the most outrageous inequalities. The commuters, however, have responded by shifting out of the Center at the pace of nearly a hundred men a year. "Before...
This blind and touching belief, and the rising expectations that impel it, have been seized upon by the Communists as a powerful lever of influence. From Moscow and Peking, Communism is held out as a short cut to material progress. Recently John Foster Dulles warned Americans that the Communists' "cruel system . . . does have a certain fascination for the peoples of underdeveloped countries who feel that their own economies are standing still." The danger is that those who compulsively hunger for economic advance will opt for the Communist alter native, if democracy's methods are too slow...