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...need for international cooperation and peace." Education must equip students to choose "methods for dealing with specific international problems in such a way as to make peace most likely to prevail...
...crew than his Yale counterpart, Allen, Walz, a devotee of the work-em-till-they-drop school of though. While Harvard crewmen are allowed to sit around and dissipate most of the winter, the hardy Elis are out on the river, simulating Washington crossing the Delaware. Theoretically, this will make them strong to the point of invincibility come the Harvard-Yale four mile pull in 'late June. It doesn't seem...
...undermine the morale of the entire civil service. It will certainly be difficult to get more men like David Lilienthal--men this country desperately needs--if any government worker must expect attacks on his personal principles and his work at any time by Congressional committees. It doesn't make much sense to deplore the lack of intelligent civil servants and at the same time allow the McKellars and Hickenloopers to attack whomever they please whenever they please. The choice is between a government responsible to the nation and a government responsible to a few wilful men. The debate is apparently...
...horse laugh," he says, "is worth ten thousand syllogisms," and he proceeds to provide many move horse-laughs than examples of neat, careful, judicious, and thorough thinking. I repeat that this is a matter of doctrine, not of accident. Speaking of great critics, he says that "they could make the thing charming, and that is always a million times more important than making it true...
After a tour together, they go to a little French coastal town; an intriguing demonstration of the art of gracious living follows. Dinner by candle light (which makes Miss Bergman's white even teeth flash and sparkle) and sailing on azure waters in a speedy little boat (which makes Miss Bergman's silky blonde hair flash and sparkle) are only a few of the things which make Mr. Howard's eyes flash and sparkle. As all good things must, this intermezzo comes to an end and the couple, realizing that they can never be happy with Howard's family waiting...