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...wherever he appeared, the loneliest man was the Hungarian, shunned and shunning. "I hope they choke on their caviar!" said a demonstrator outside the Russian embassy in Stockholm. A Finnish protocol officer, required to attend in Helsinki, insisted: "I'm not thirsty. I'm not hungry." A pamphlet distributed by students outside the Russian embassy in Washington taunted: "Try our new cocktail . . . freshly mixed in Hungary. It's spiced with children's tears and blood...
...wish to see combat, he was recruited by an old family friend, Archibald MacLeish, to serve with Arthur Schlesinger Jr., Charles Poore, and E. B. White in "that magnificent stable of writers," the Office of Facts and Figures. For seven months in 1942, Bundy wrote what he calls obscure pamphlet propaganda in Washington, meanwhile reportedly eating bananas and carrots and keeping himself in a dark room in an effort to meet the physical requirements for the Army. "Finally they lowered the eye qualifications," he says, and he was inducted...
Coon feels this explains why disorders which, if found in an older person might lead to ominous predictions, but among students yield rapidly to treatment. An American-Psychological Association pamphlet put it another way: the college psychiatrist "sees people who are of superior intelligence, who are 'fresh from their symptoms,' and who are for the most part eager to get on with their work as soon as possible...
Just recently a document has come forth insisting that academic freedom applies to the student, and that he must learn democracy through practice. It is a twelve-page pamphlet--Academic Freedom and Civil Liberties of Students--published by the American Civil Liberties Union. While it does not document cases, it affords a clear and generally consistent statement of principles for student rights at colleges, and as an after-thought, secondary schools...
...pamphlet's main argument is that young people cannot learn and grow into adults who respect democracy if they are barred from exercising it themselves. It attacks "the increasing exercise of a stifling paternalism by college authorities and governing boards over students, their organizational and other activities...