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...enlisted in the French colonial army and was commissioned a 2nd lieutenant. He spent most of World War II serving under a Vichy colonial administration that did the bid ding of the Japanese invaders. But in March 1945, when Vichy surrendered the French colony to the Japanese outright, Minh joined a band of defiant, lower-echelon soldiers who organized heroic but futile resistance to the capitulation. Minh was taken prisoner by the Japanese, beaten and tortured by having most of his teeth yanked out. Minh is proud of his dental scars and today, when he neglects to wear his false...
...phrases which cried "Scandall" in Dean Monro's letter. His waving the bloody shirt triggered a press scandal which has confused discussion. Taken out of context, phrases like "license to use the college rooms for wild parties or for sexual intercourse," "unrestricted sexual behavior," and "closer and closer to outright scandal," are simply inflammatory. They suggest wrongly that wild parties run rampant and Harvard; Harvard students know how rare such parties...
...would have been safer for the President not to extend an invitation to Tito. It would not have been easy, since Tito was determined to visit Latin America and the UN anyway. Nevertheless, adequate precedent for a Presidential snub certainly existed. A proposed visit in 1957 was cancelled outright when protests unnerved Eisenhower. In 1960 Tito came to the UN and was awarded a chat with Ike at the Waldorf-Astoria but not an invitation to the White House...
Most of the book reviewing done in the past century was outright puffery. Fields was especially adept at planting puffs. He would write reviews himself and mail them to editors ("It may serve your tired brain some purpose. No one need know that I wrote it"), or he would ease a reviewer's critical burden by explaining that "the moral of the story lies at the bottom of page 168." Journals in which Fields advertised were expected to discover rare qualities in Fields's authors, but on one notable occasion the system of back-scratching broke down...
...right about this; and you would be right, too, except that the present set of paristal rules is now producing a succession of serious violations, and a system of attitudes about sexual behavior which are not only distressing in themselves but promise to move us closer and closer to outright scandal. So we reach a point where we must discuss parietal rules in moral terms...