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...Communist butchers out of there. They've been butchering the innocent in that country--South America, Africa, they've been all over capturing the world! We sit by like a bunch of cowards, a bunch of yellow-striped cowards, not getting involved because we made a fool of ourself in South Vietnam and let them walk all over that country...
About 20 people were kneeling Japanese-style on chintz-covered pillows arranged around three low tables. We smiled at everyone as we lowered ourself to the floor...
...upholsterers. The Jesuits put him on a diet of Terence, Lucretius, and French drama. Wielding a pen sharper than a needle, he became the playwright Molière. Perverts & Premiers. All this so impressed Louis XIV, the Sun King, that in 1682 he took over the place and declared "Ourself founder." The faculty, rendering unto Caesar, removed "Jesus" from the front door and put up "Ludovici Magni" (Louis-le-grand). The pleased king founded a foreign-language study annex in Constantinople and a scholarship fund that salvaged more talent, including Encyclopedist Denis Diderot and one Franç Marie Arouet...
...honored ritual phrase, "Quid vobis videtur? [What do you think?]" In the sign of an assent that is now automatic, the cardinals doffed their scarlet zucchetta (skullcaps). The Pope pronounced the words of appointment: "By the authority of Almighty God, of the Holy Apostles Peter and Paul and of ourself, we appoint"-and here, one by one, the Pope named the men-"to be cardinals, in the name of the Father, and of the Son and of the Holy Ghost. Amen." Thus the Sacred College of Cardinals was raised to the highest membership in history-90, including three cardinals...
...have said nothing about such miscellaneous diversions as safety campaigns, fire-prevention week (when youngsters ride the fire wagon instead of learning to read), or that favorite excrescence on school programs (and budgets): driver training . . . We allow ourself one more question . . . If your school resembles a clambake or decathlon, if it seems more likely to bewilder and daze than to sharpen, furnish, and organize young minds, whose, ultimately, is the fault...