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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...final form, the Washington conference communiqué produced an eloquent restatement of the principles that guided it: "Despotisms have often been able to produce spectacular monuments. But the price has been heavy. For all peoples yearn for intellectual and economic freedom, the more so if from their bondage they see others manifest the glory of freedom. Even despots are forced to permit freedom to grow by an evolutionary process, or in time there will be violent revolution...
...Administration should now define more clearly its present rules for its employees and the public, and definite penalties should be imposed for accepting gifts which are clearly more than tokens. It is unfortunate that it is so often difficult to determine innocent from improper gifts. But by prohibiting any large presents, the government would make any real corruption easier to discover and also raise public opinion about the behavior of government officials...
Williams seemed to want to purvey the image of our century's archetypal poet, a very complicated and often irresponsible but enchanting man as good, old, sweet, kind and tolerant Dylan, poet and good fellow, a few steps away from Mr. Chips or Robert Frost or De Lawd in Green Pastures. In short, Mr. Williams's choice of material and his rendition of it have a tinge of the sacdharine as well as a bit of pleasant nostalgia which fail in part to hit the personality of the man or be very characteristic of his work...
Happy in the United States, they still correspond with home, but letters are few and widely spaced. Parents sometimes say the opposite of what they feel, and often adopt codes so they can tell their sons at Harvard what is really going on in Hungary. "Your friends" means "America;" "red ink" means "the truth;" "winter coat" means "changes;" "he's resting" means "he's in prison;" "the Square" may mean "secret police...
Elections these days are a peculiar business. The voters are increasingly puzzled by the growing similarity between the major parties. And the candidates are often perplexed by the need to defeat opponents with whom they may well be in fundamental agreement...