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...impossible to overlook the adolescent in Hemingway-his bravado, his emotional friendships, his vague but all-important code, his deep sentimentality about the good, the true, the straight, the beautiful, and occasionally the unprintable. But to preserve something of the adolescent through three decades in a world of literary critics, parodizers and cocktail-party highbrows takes a certain admirable courage. Above all, Hemingway can laugh at himself. Typical of Hemingway making fun of Hemingway is El Ordine Militar, Nobile y Espirituoso de los Caballeros de Brusadelli-which means, more or less, the Military Order of the Noble and Spirited Knights...
...expanded program of technical assistance and world development would certainly be more effective than military pacts. For efforts to stop Communism in Asia by rifles or H-bombs overlook the pride, nationalism, and hunger of most free Asians. Local landlords are much more hated by landless peasants than are distant totalitarian tyrants; bread and rice taste better than gunpowder. Present Soviet technical assistance also makes an expanded U.S. program necessary. The Soviet Union is giving China more than seven times the amount of money the U.S. now devotes to India, and free Asia looks with longing eyes at the rapid...
...conceded that "when I came to Hollywood I had a rather precious and coddled attitude about my own integrity. It was stupid of me to resist so directly the prejudice that money is right. But just because the big shots were nice to me I saw no reason to overlook what they did to others and to ignore the fact that they normally behave with the hostility of ants at a picnic. The marvelous thing about Hollywood is that these people are recognized as sort of the norm, while I am the flip. These gnarled and twisted personalities...
...penitentiary and fined him $15,000 for evading $91,086 in income taxes. In passing sentence-one of the stiffest ever handed down for tax evasion-Judge Bruchhausen took official cognizance of Joe Nunan's old position as top tax collector of the land. "The court does not overlook the fact that the defendant's duties . . . afforded him unusual opportunities for acquaintance with the tax laws and regulations," he said. "Possessed as he was with all of this knowledge and information, his failure to properly account for and pay his own taxes emphasizes his guilt...
...believe in God after nine years of life under Communism. So reported a U.S. newsman from Belgrade last week. At a time of grave political and military defeats for the West, this figure marks a significant spiritual victory. Westerners who complain that they lack an "ideology" to oppose Communism overlook Christianity...