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...partisans go further and claim that Nehru speaks for all Asia. This is manifest nonsense. Nehru does not speak for Mao's China, for Japan, for the Philippines, for Formosa, for Korea, for Thailand, for North or South Viet Nam, for Afghanistan, for Pakistan. His influence is principally felt in Ceylon, Burma, Laos, Cambodia, Malaya and Indonesia...
...Thought. "A lot of them don't," said the saleslady sympathetically. She fingered a stack of paper slips, looped together with ribbon and proclaiming: "I reject all negative thoughts from others. They may return to those who sent them. I am positive, positive, positive. Divine force is manifest in me. I am positive, positive, positive...
...Boswell, Miller says kind things of the first meeting with "my good friend Alf." But like Boswell's initial confrontation with Johnson, it was not a success. "There was no click," Perles confesses sadly. Yet, "was I already under the spell of that personality which was later to manifest itself in his epoch-making books?" Two years later the question was answered. He was-even though Miller "talked through his hat, like an inspired lunatic...
...Since far more young men are reaching military age than the armed services have room for, said President Charles Cole of Amherst, "a great many are going to escape military service altogether. The manifest unfairness of a system that requires such service from only half or a third of the male youth will gradually make it intolerable." Furthermore, said Cole. "As things stand a soldier is no sooner trained to handle an electronic or other device than his term of service expires." Cole's suggested remedy: the armed services should maintain a nucleus of highly trained long-term enlistees...
...becoming a city-state, by virtue of our power, we automatically become a major nation, with a manifest destiny to conquer not only Radcliffe, but also Central Square, M.I.T., and eventually Katie Gibbs. Should the necessity arise, we might also (reluctantly) take over the rest of the world. Obviously, to accomplish these grand schemes Free Harvard would require a strong political organization. Fortunately, we have such a long tradition of sheer autocracy under deans and other supernumeraries that we cannot fail to be a powerful state. Luckily the University has not been afflicted with any of this unhealthy milksop Student...