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...sense an apolitical artist - in fact, he served as president of the first Presidium when the Russians forcibly converted Rumania to Communism in 1947 (which helps explain why translations of his work are now offered as the first fruit of a new cultural exchange agreement between Ru mania...
...lecture has become one of the most despised of educational tools. Obsessed with the mania of group dynamics, educators have vilified the lecture for boring the student, for wasting his time, for separating him from his instructor, and even for retarding his ability to think...
...wing collar, a spade-tailed coat, and nose glasses leashed with yards of black, fluttering ribbon. He rolled out his words with infinite relish. "My faults," he cried, "are obvious. There can be no doubt I have my full share. I suffer from cacoëthes loquendi, a mania or itch for talking, from vanity and morbidity, and, as is obvious to everyone who knows me, an inborn, an inveterate flair for histrionics." Democrat Henry Fountain Ashurst was off on one of the orations that were the delight of the Senate from...
Tough, able Sergeant Riglioni, himself only fitfully rational, blurredly watches the breakup. It takes the form of a mania for light. At night, huddled sleeplessly in bomb-crushed cellars, the men crave candles. They try scraping wax from ration boxes, but the lights they make burn only for seconds. Then a replacement shows up, squeamish in combat but eerily skillful at finding large quantities of wax. He guards his secret, but the obsessed men find it out: the wax comes from holy figures in household shrines and churches...
...scream "McCarthyism" at the suggestion that scientists or civil servants should be more closely screened. This month, in the wake of two other flagrant espionage cases, a government committee investigating security procedures recommended drastic reforms. Its findings stirred angry protests against what the Laborite Daily Herald called "spy mania." If Maclean and Burgess do return to Britain and come to trial, the full story of their defection should persuade the public that there have been occasions when pansies and pinks were presumed to be patriots...