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Wherever Candidate Glenn dropped out of the sky, in his home state or in Maine, where residents in one town hosed down their housefronts in preparation for his arrival, he was greeted with extraordinary warmth. It mattered little that the applause was always louder when he arrived than when he departed. After his speeches, voters lined up for autographs and snapshots. Like another hero and presidential candidate, Dwight Eisenhower, with whom he is frequently compared, Glenn's folk stature gives him tremendous believability with his audiences. Still, the crowds studied him carefully, trying to judge his competence. Is this...
...voice from Williamsburg's past shouts louder than that of Patrick Henry, who in 1765 protested the British Stamp Act ("Caesar had his Brutus; Charles the First, his Cromwell"). Standing near the doorway of the House of Burgesses was Thomas Jefferson, then a 22-year-old law student. He listened as the passionate Henry paused before mentioning the name of the British King ("Let George the Third profit by their example"), then heard the cries of "Treason!" that reverberated through the colonies. While Thatcher could ponder her myopic forebears, Mitterrand could indulge a Francophile chuckle. On the fateful...
...about a new, correct and complete edition as long ago as 1926, but the labors of retranscribing and annotating the 1.3 million-word text were heroic. The first three volumes finally appeared, to general huzzas, in 1970; the last volume of Pepys' text appeared in 1976, to even louder applause...
However sensible, those are ideas that would take a long time to implement. The near-term outlook thus remains for an odd combination of intermittent, savage but low-intensity fighting in Nicaragua and a continuing, much louder political uproar in both Central America...
...Calkins, a Cleveland tax lawyer, knows perfectly well that $20 bills speak louder than 20-page memos. The Undergraduate Council deserves high praise for lending its weight to the escrow drive with publicity and money for legal costs. We hope it keeps the fund growing during class gift efforts of the future, and we hope that alumni Harvard fundraisers and contributors will create similar funds of their...