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...great morass--the American "Leveling" Philosophy, the equating of equal opportunity with "sameness"--came Herschell Podge. His teachers were underpaid, and his school turned most of its limited funds into a complex hierarchy of extra-curricular activities, the financing of a football team and rereleased motion picture entertainment for lunch period ennui. If Herschell were a colored boy, he wouldn't get decent school facilities in a good many sections of the South. If Herschell came from a Plains state, his high school probably couldn't offer a course in physics...
...Congress Party for the nation's "corruption, nepotism, jobbery and unseemly haste to amass wealth by crooked gains and avoidance of taxation. All these sores of the body politic grow larger and larger every day." He went on: "Our present degradation is leading the country to the same morass in which Chiang Kai-shek's China found itself. There was no rescue in China from the jaws of Communism. But in India we had one hope. If a man like Mr. Nehru could shed the glamour of office, he could, perhaps-it is a small chance-bring back...
...such a somber time the mission is dubious. Stewart's morass of words and symbols might have helped the Advocate more than the Lampoon. Brust's unhappy tale of the decadent South will manage to offend all of Harvard's geographical distribution who chance to read it. And Hawkins' pilgrimage through the bargain basement universe will confirm Bostonian suspicions that Harvard Yard should be a separate state...
...year in per capita dues to the A.F.L.-C.I.O.; its burly truck drivers can make or break strikes in almost all key industries, and the Teamster bosses had let the word get out that they might be tempted to get even with the unions that voted against them. A morass of tie-ups, a campaign of raids, could splinter, perhaps even destroy the A.F.L.-C.I.O...
Among the morass of politically-minded second lieutenants in the White House, the addition of a responsible scientist to the corps would do the nation no harm...