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...side of freedom and humanitarianism against Fascism and the totalitarian states, paying for the freedom of the world with her blood. Once the cataclysm was over, she again mounted a vast program of generous aid and assistance to Allied countries, as well as to former enemies. This had no parallel in the annals of mankind and eventually transformed the destinies of those nations. It is also a sign of the great resilience of the American nation that out of all the upheavals of the past 200 years in which she has been involved she has emerged stronger and more powerful...
Killing the Fun. It is as if violence in sports has found a parallel in the violation of style by a Jock Lit author like Novak, who has written with consider able grace and intelligence on the equally treacherous subject of American politics (Choosing Our King). For sports' new and embarrassing lovers are not so much wrong as excessive. The shrill use of "joy" and "fun" and "pleasure" in the titles and texts comes to sound as suspect as "honest" in the name of a used-car dealer. Jock Lit authors are so deadly serious they kill...
...homes of ordinary French people. But the novelty of Giscard's consciously unimperial style has long since worn off, and he has lately had to deal with a realization that among most of his voters, his most appealing quality was not his pledge of change but his parallel promise of continuity...
What that undergraduate may not have realized is that the Registrar's office had only shown him one of his files. Last week the University acknowledged that it maintains two parallel sets of student records, one accessible to students, the other completely off-limits...
...mistake, however, to parallel the difference between Brown-Beasley and the young workers Peixoto and Reddy to the relationship of management to the 75 or so clerical workers on the third floor of Holyoke Center. As Brown-Beasley says, "lines are not so clearly drawn." The employees do not all view themselves as a distinct and subordinate class, toiling in tedium for an employer whose interests are not their own. The unpopularity of that view is demonstrated by the difficulty District 65, a clerical and technical workers' union, has had organizing in Cambridge. For the people who work...