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Smoke & Drink. In passing, Monty has a lot to say about courage ("One of the greatest of human qualities") and justice ("[It] cannot prevail without the sanction of force"). He is perhaps most eloquent about clean living: "Abstemiousness is vital-in food, in drink, in smoking, in social activities. So is need for regular sleep." Monty once reproachfully told Churchill: "I never smoke, never drink, I'm always in bed by 9:30, and I'm 100 percent fit." To which Churchill, who has his own definition of leadership, replied: "I never stop smoking, drink when I like...
More than ten years after the formulation of a plan for the Inner Belt highway, the most that has materialized is inaction and indecision. Particularly in Cambridge, where the road is a political deus ex machina for major urban renewal projects, indecision and factionalism prevail...
...sure, its critics have quite a few arguments left: examinations create arbitrary divisions between bodies of knowledge; they encourage students to cram in a hurry and forget equally rapidly. But given the practical advantages of examinations under the present educational system, one doubts that these criticisms will prevail. From a pragmatic standpoint, one can only ask: given examinations, how can they be made more tolerable? Or one can take a radical approach and inquire whether the entire system should be changed...
Admittedly, one can overdraw the picture of Oxford as a place where leisurely living and scintillating wit prevail. "We are getting dull" has been the theme of several letters and articles in recent undergraduate publications. Entrance requirements consisting entirely of a rigorous examination attach little value to the well-rounded school record or to personal evidence of untapped ability; rising academic standards and an expanded scholarship program inevitably produce fewer parties and more hours devoted to sheer hard work...
...prevail in that struggle, Rusk believes, the U.S. needs only to remember, in effect, that the Eagle has two claws. The U.S., he says, "is not a raft tossed by the winds and waves of historical forces over which it has little control. Its dynamic power, physical and ideological, generates historical forces; what it does or does not do makes a great deal of difference to the history of man in this epoch...