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...last big shelling). Though U.S. policy has at times been wobbly as well as ambiguous, Quemoy and Matsu, garrisoned with 100,000 Chinese Nationalist troops, are still free-a fair measure of the power of the bristling question mark that the U.S. has raised for the Communists to ponder...
...influence the design of American automobiles. The museum is aware of its power. But what should museums do? Abandon their concern with recent art. . .? In conclusion, may I propose that reluctant 'tastemakers' like me and those like you who exaggerate the power of 'tastemakers' both ponder Aesop's fable of two flies who, perched upon the axletree of a chariot, complacently remarked to each other: 'What a dust we do raise...
...choice is clearly between life and death; there are no other choices. Only a dubious liberal could ponder a possible third alternative--annihilation through inactivity. Is this really what Harvard's (or the nation's) liberals want? Daniel Markewich...
...bishop's views led the London Times to ponder whether "an old person's life is less valuable than anyone else's." Its own answer: while it is not less valuable, "other considerations are more important." In a letter to the Times, former Home Secretary Chuter Ede reminded the bishop that his Clough quotation had been taken out of context-that the poet had really meant just the opposite. The lines that follow it in the poem, ironically titled The Latest Decalogue...
...Hench challenged his hearers with the defiant statement that they would probably be unable to accept his theory at this stage. But since he suggested that it applied, beyond rheumatoid arthritis, to several disorders such as rheumatic fever, gout, psoriasis and ulcerative colitis, he left them with much to ponder...