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...education of John F. Kennedy. In his first great crisis, he bungled horribly." The Chicago Tribune, while joining the general applause for Kennedy's forceful statement on Cuba before a meeting of newspaper editors in Washington, suggested that the time had come for presidential action to speak louder than presidential words. Kennedy's speech, said the Tribune, "did not answer the questions which arise from his statement that the climax in the struggle against Communism would come in the early 1960s and that the hour is late. Where and when is the stand to be made...
...Bible's poetry. Instances of "jargon, and all that is either stilted or slipshod" are even more numerous. Matthew's account of Pilate's altercation with the Jews is given overtones of "Mrs. Murphy's Chowder": "Why, what harm has he done?" Pilate asked; but they shouted all the louder, "Crucify him!" The sayings of Jesus become jingles ("If your right eye leads you astray...
Guard on the Beaches. As the sound of distant drums grew louder, so did noises closer to home. Underground agents set fire to Havana's big El Encanto department store and destroyed it completely, an $8,000,000 loss. Castro himself seemed almost out of control. Four times last week he appeared to harangue Cubans over TV. "We are going to tear to bits all those who show their heads," he cried. At a workers' meeting he lapsed into incoherency. But Brother Raul, the Defense Minister, and Castro's Communist Adviser Che Guevara seemed to be keeping...
...warm Sunday afternoon and listen to the folk singers. There, on a good Sunday, ten or a dozen guitarists and banjo pickers will be roosting around the edge of a big, ugly fountain playing loudly or softly according to confidence and competition. The songs are love ballads and louder lieder, seditious of maidenly morals and bankerly riches (not because the minstrels hate capitalists or, in some cases, like maidens, but merely because good ballads in praise of chastity or the Federal Reserve System are rare). There is no hat passing; the musicians are well fed, often by their parents. They...
...feel a duty along the lines of leading them in thought along the proper channels. We are just the same as we always were. I'd say the left has just moved farther left. The leftist influence has gotten so much stronger that we have got to holler louder to make ourselves heard." On those terms, the News is a hollering success...