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...unfortunate that she chose to search for scapegoats rather than solutions. Paul Mitchinson Graduate Student, History
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Died. Dr. Cyril Edwin Mitchinson Joad, 61, popular philosopher, author (The Book of Joad, The Testament of Joad and 46 other serious-to-potboiling books), University of London professor; of cancer; in London. Puffin-shaped, goat-bearded and brilliantly voluble ("I can explain anything to anybody"), C. E. M. Joad was variously a socialist, pacifist, patriot, agnostic, advocate of free love, polygamy, euthanasia, suicide and easy divorce, and a professional carper. On scientific progress: "The superman made the plane, but the ape has got hold of it." On religion: "Why, if God so loves us, does He give us such...
...sparked by Guest Speaker Cyril Edwin Mitchinson Joad,* a bearded, posturing professional pundit, the famed old Oxford Union voted 275 to 153 "that under no circumstances will we fight for King and Country." When graduate members, led by Winston Churchill's choleric son Randolph, tried to expunge this from the record, they were swamped 750 to 138. In his history of World War II, Winston Churchill somberly wrote: "It was easy to laugh off such an episode in England, but in Germany, in Russia, in Italy, in Japan, the idea of a decadent, degenerate Britain took deep root...
Philosopher Cyril Edwin Mitchinson Joad, bearded by the press and attempting an explanation of British tolerance of demi-bared bosoms in the cinema: "Perhaps it is because we have a longer past. We know that often in our history women have worn low-cut dresses, and it doesn't shock us that Jane Russell looks more like a woman than any woman ought to look...