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...damning indictment of Communism by former party members and fellow travelers. Taken on a conducted tour by the Chinese Reds, he was somehow persuaded that formation of the communes was actually "spontaneous and unforeseen by the State Planning Commission." Yet even the establishment of the far milder cooperative farms met with considerable opposition among Red China's peasants. In Kwangtung province alone 118.000 peasants and their families deserted cooperative farms in 1956. Peking itself admits that the establishment of the communes has produced "vacillation" among the "upper-middle peasants." Stalin's forced collectivization of Russian agriculture...
...routines and yelling at the piano player. Perhaps for this reason, on his opening show, he was little more than a carpenter's assistant to the wild house wrecker he once was. His one-minute exchange with Guest Bob Hope was mildly funny, his opening monologue even milder, and his dance routine was just routine. Many viewers will be happy that he is trying to get his laughs standing up instead of falling down, but even those who welcome the lack of tumult may ask for a little more to shout about. "It isn't a new Berle...
...exiled Greek Orthodox Archbishop Makarios, bearded leader of the Greek Cypriot movement for union with Greece, objected that the plan could constitutionally divide the island in two, "thereby creating a focus of permanent unrest." But Makarios, whom Macmillan offered to return to Cyprus if violence ceased, concluded on a milder note: "We do not reject a transitory stage of self-government...
...also repeats, in milder form, Nietzsche's moral and psychological critique and traces as deftly as the vehement Antichrist himself the subtle ways in which humility and self-effacement can be poisoned with unconscious resentment and servility, pious altruism functioning as the cloak for ferocious resentment and hate. (Members of the Harvard religious community who think that this element has altogether vanished from sophisticated contemporary Christianity were obviously not listening to the responsive reading they recited during a recent service in Memorial Church: "...Vengeance is mine; I will repay, saith the Lord. Therefore if thine enemy hunger, feed...
...which-so far cover grades seven through ten, classes are small (a 1-to-12 teacher-pupil ratio), and the three Rs are fitted to the individual. Most important, the teachers (all volunteers) come mainly from the overcrowded "600" schools that have handled milder malcontents for a decade. There they learned when to shrug off misbehavior, when to stand firm...