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...Russell, more surely than any great thinker of our day, loved man and grieved for his folly. When he committed his feelings to paper-"Echoes of crics of pain revererate in my heart" -no one laughed. Moral statements having become the property of unct?ous rhetoricians and pious coniving presidents, we tend to hear them with skepticism and anger. Russell's words, however, rang true to almost everyone who heard, because they were complemented by a life style that was manifestly gentle, courageous, and loving...
...were ousted in th( early purges of the Cultural Revolution Indispensable as managers of economy and government, they have now been rehabilitated and are being sent back tc the boondocks to straighten out the "mis led masses." The army wants no par of the prodigal cadres. The more zeal ous Maoists in its ranks resent their return as betrayal of the aims of th< Cultural Revolution, as a move tha smacks of "restoration of the old." Tc the bulk of the army, however, th< cadre issue represents a much more tangible threat. For the soldiers know that in line with...
...rest, like 3/4 of the objects the Fogg owns, are never shown to the public. Sculpture fragments, torn paintings, forgeries and most prints and drawings are stored in the basement and print and drawing rooms and are used only for study and instruction. Many large bequests of miscellane- ous art must be attributed and sometimes restored before the works which are good enough to be exhibited can be separated from those which...
...example, came within 235 votes of victory-and Couve had hardly been a dynamic campaigner. All in all, according to De Gaulle's calculations, a shift of 10,000 votes in the right places would have turned 35 Gaullist losers into winners. "That's not seri- ous," he told his Cabinet. "It is a situation that will redress itself...
...excuse to invade. The "Red Execution Theory," pushed by Right-Wing Intellectual Revilo P. Oliver, has it that Oswald was ordered by Moscow to shoot Kennedy because the President had been a Communist but was threatening to "turn American." The "Evil-Forces Theory," favored by Mali Foreign Minister Ous-man Ba, links the death of Kennedy, Patrice Lumumba and Dag Hammarskjöld with "forces behind the U.S.Belgian rescue operation in the Congo...