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...five years [we] have lived in the fear of the Russians and from the charity of the Americans," he said. "Before such a spectacle we are listless, as if history would wait, as if we had time-decades and decades-to transform our mentality, to suppress our customs barriers, to abandon our national egotisms ... I have been astounded by the amount of talent that has been expended in this Assembly to explain that something could not be done." In particular he attacked Winston Churchill, who more than any man had set the idea of federation to rolling...
Spirited, not listless, should now describe the Yardling soccer team that meets the Eli cubs in New Haven at 2 p.m. today in what promises to be an even game. Judging by this week's practice attendance, the freshmen have fully recovered from their lethargic spell before the Brown game...
...rather listless freshman soccer team defeated an even more listless Dartmouth squad, 2 to 0 on the Business School Field yesterday. After the game, Crimson coach Andrew "Poley" Gudya wryly commented "we looked better losing to Exeter...
...even more realistic prescription for the listless appetite: "Have a large family, and not quite enough to go round...
...real genius of the Roman Catholic Church is her ability to make God real to the last and the least of the human race. There are listless worshipers before her altars . . . yet the divine glow is present in enough hearts with sufficient frequency to make the Roman Mass the most successful religious service known to man. The hush which comes over most congregations when the consecrated host is elevated is not a matter of theatrical effects cleverly arranged; something is really happening in the hearts of many of the people . . . The power of the Mass is a fact which Protestants...