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Soul of a Peasant? Fanny delighted in a fairyland peopled with lovely and fantastically incompetent natives who were always either crying or laughing, and for ever trying to help. "Simi [the butler] ... is breaking everything we possess. He smiles with a kind tolerance when he smashes something precious, and is more like an English colonel than words can express...
...Ph.D.," says Astute, "will open more doors and make more of an impression than anything you could possibly possess." But the Rev. Dr. should not take himself too seriously: he would do well to pass up Toynbee's Study of History and devote his "selective" reading to denominational periodicals-the Biblical Bugle, the Biblical Trumpet., the Biblical Clarinet...
...extension of U.S. bases in the Philippines, objected that U.S. security guarantees were "vague and equivocal" (he wanted them "automatic"), opposed SEATO as "unduly provoking Red China," and launched a virulent attack on Magsaysay's recognition of South Viet Nam, "a despotic oligarchy" which "does not possess the most elementary attributes of sovereignty." Magsaysay, he charged, was acting as "an American puppet...
...heart and mind for something that I could say here that could convince everyone of the great sincerity of the U.S. in approaching this problem of disarmament. I should address myself for a moment principally to the delegates from the Soviet Union, because our two great countries admittedly possess new and terrible weapons in quantities which do give rise in other parts of the world, or reciprocally, to the fears and dangers of surprise attack." In this moment, the Big Four became the Big Two. The Russians, though the translation had not yet come through, were aware that Eisenhower...
...some that "sing," or, better yet, make him "feel weak." In a pleasantly weak mood, he may order a dozen or more in as many minutes. Over the past quarter of a century, Hirshhorn has amassed some 800 contemporary American paintings, more than all but two or three museums possess...