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Equally important, providing aid money to nonregistrants to replace lost federal loans is subverting the policy of registration itself. Although The Crimson is on record in its opposition to draft registration, we do not agree that filling out a postcard is a particularly onerous imposition of government authority...
...Times is the subject of yet another Harvard postcard, though in a less flattering light. "The Marxist-Socialist-liberal New York Times is a treacherous brainwasher that can be dangerous to your mental health...
...count on bringing home any holiday Harvardania--given what's on the shelves you're better off with yet another insignia sweatshirt. You could buy the $35 book of photographs. Harvard: A Living Portrait, but a free admissions brochure will furnish the same postcard visions of the University...
Dictators' pastimes are far more striking because they often contrast with the rulers' normal behavior. Nero, no fiddler incidentally, did play the lyre and sing to vast, appreciative audiences. Hitler was a painter who started out doing postcard-size works of art and, as his career improved, worked his way up to large water-colors of wartime destruction: rubble, crumbled walls, caved-in roofs. Eventually he created his own subjects, a rare chance for an artist. According to his lackey, the featherbrained Putzi Hanfstaengl, Hitler also adored whistling. His best numbers were Harvard fight songs, which Putzi...
...real actions of those figures Unfortunately, in recent Westerns both elements have been undermined. The legends have been pulled out of glorious iconic two-dimensionality and reduced to human levels, and the landscape have been deflated from three-dimensional grandeur into a series of all-too-familiar picture postcard images. Although this decline developed from the wariness with which we now approach our national myths, it is, more noticeably, the result of simple surfeit in what is after all a somewhat limited genre...