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...most positive response of all came from another junior. She replied, "Register with Harvard? I though we always did! Onward to unity. We should do it at night and combine it with the mixer...
Applying all this background to the present moment, I suggest we should not get too excited over Peking's vast blueprints for the onward course of the Maoist revolution. Some American commentators who really ought to know better have over-reacted to the visionary blueprint of world revolution put out by Lin Piao last Sep- tember in Peking (about the strangling of the world's advanced countries or "cities" from the underdeveloped countries or "countryside.") This was, I think, a re-assertion of faith, that the Chinese Communists own parochial example of rural-based revolution is the model...
Uneven Talents. As this collection proves, Faulkner was particularly busy from 1950 onward. Far from being a recluse, he reported on the Kentucky Derby for SPORTS ILLUSTRATED, wrote on a variety of subjects for other magazines, and took a lively interest in public affairs. But just as his recently republished verse, The Marble Faun and A Green Bough (TIME, Nov. 26), showed that he was not much of a poet, this collection indicates that he possessed woefully uneven talents as a speaker, essayist and letter writer...
...Justice Traynor. But this is a government of law not men, and the maintenance of that essential is the difference between our government and tyranny." It is, moreover, what makes a state court vital to U.S. law. "The real danger to law is not that judges may take off onward and upward," says Chief Justice Traynor, "but that all too many of them have long since stopped dead in the tracks of their predecessors...
...seemed only logical at the time that they would break ranks right before they reached the goalposts, but one of the two groups obviously needs a lesson in logic. Almost before I realized what had happened, I found myself staring deep into a tuba as its owner relentlessly marched onward. Somewhat dazed, I looked for the other cheerleader, but all I could see was trumpets and clarinets...