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...could point out that the theory of free-enterprise-competitive economy in the U.S. has suffered considerable erosion, and that "personal freedom and liberty" may owe their survival to other than economic factors. (In denying this, the bill itself seems to expound a modified Marxist view of history...
...College admission policy in President Pusey's report may have given some readers the impression that my last report on Harvard admissions was critical of present admission policy, critical that is, of what is now being done by my successor, Dean Glimp, and the current Admission & Scholarship Committee. I owe it to these gentlemen, for whom I have the greatest respect and sympathy, to make it entirely clear that I was not, directly or indirectly, criticizing them. In fact, since my report was written in the fall of 1960, before any students had been admitted by the Admission Committee under...
COLLECTED POEMS, by Robert Graves. The songs of this bent-nosed Jove are clear, precise and passionate, and owe little to the century in which they were written. The author, who has filled some 70 books with several sorts of excellent prose, justifiably considers the poems his life work...
Most of the red ink, however, is Red. In all, Russia and its satellites owe the U.N. $55 million-and Russia has come up with a new excuse to avoid a higher assessment: poverty. In effect, Moscow demands that the U.S. shoulder more of the burden "because the aftermath of the past is still being felt" in Russia...
...Compton-Burnett and Evelyn Waugh, sat in Firbank's school. In fact, Firbank's exotics-improbable princesses, epicene cardinals, Caribbean market queens and so on-talk with the raw strength of Hardy's Wessex peasants. Even Hemingway's brusque and hirsute mannerisms, Powell argues, may owe something to the ambiguous ellipses of the characters in Ronald Firbank's fairy kingdoms...