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Fidelity: A virtue peculiar to those who are about to be betrayed...
...strikes at the MIG bases, however, illustrated Johnson's peculiar ability to add to the onus. Barely three days before the bases were bombed, Illinois' Republican Senator Charles H. Percy was assured by both the State and Defense Departments that they would not be touched. Moreover, Defense Secretary Robert S. McNamara had said only a few weeks earlier that "under present circumstances-and this belief can change as time goes by-we think the loss in U.S. lives will be less if we pursue our present target policy than they would, were we to attack those airfields." McNamara...
...tall, fair, baby-faced lad whose pronouncements sometimes lean toward the studied and pompous, Buswell entered Harvard because he believes that it is the duty of the performer to "seek an expression peculiar to his generation, and college is one way of discovering what my generation is all about."* As a result, while most young musicians today approach the classics on bended knee, vowing technically precise, note-for-note fidelity, Buswell views his role as that of a "performer in the creative sense, equally creative as the composer...
...Most Harvard junior faculty perceive a clear horizontal cut between junior and senior faculty." An exaggeration of the case. This is true at most universities and is not peculiar to Harvard. Senior faculty members everywhere are reticent in their familiarity...
...turn of the century: in the wave of expansionist fervor that carried us into possession of Hawaii and the Philippines, Puerto Rico and the Canala Zone: all places not contiguous to our national territory. It manifested itself also, strangely enough, in the growth among many Americans of a peculiar emotional and sentimental preoccupation with China and the Asian mainland--a preoccupation quite divorced from considerations of real national interest. And it manifested itself also in a curious enthusiasm for the establishment of legalistic criteria for the solution of international problems...