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What is needed is more uniformity. The University should proclaim a week of Universal Futility and end the muddlings of the snowbound. By resolving student's doubts about exams, the University could enable him to turn to a really constructive occupation--the mute and blissful contemplation of blankness. Unbothered by other cares, the student could gaze wistfully at the falling flakes, developing his soul and a death wish. Matthew Arnold, Thomas Carlyle and other notables have expounded the virtues of silence. Is the University for liberal education? Is the University really for mysticism? We have a right to know...
...Soviet leaders in Africa and Asia. From Burma, India, and Afghanistan in the East, to Egypt and Liberia in the West, the Soviets have tried to sell the notion that they can best provide the capital and technicians and equipment needed by less developed nations. It is pointless to proclaim that Asians must beware Soviets bearing gifts, for the gifts look pretty delectable to free, but underveloped countries. The only answer is for the United States to pick up the challenge and demonstrate that dollars and sincerity can at least equal Soviet promises. Since this will be a long contest...
...Boise, Idaho, after Vice President Nixon had claimed G.O.P. credit for the Supreme Court's desegregation decision (see above), Adlai shifted his fire to the Democrats' favorite target. Nixon, he said acidly, "is an all-purpose politician who can proclaim an old Democratic program as good when it wears a new Republican label, and denounce it as socialism at the same time.'' In Salt Lake City he said: "Warren is no more a Republican Chief Justice than the seven members who were appointed under previous Administrations are Democratic Justices. These nine men jointly performed their duty...
...both Pierre Poujade and the Communists were well pleased. Poujade was quite willing to accept ejection of his men by the Assembly if he could capitalize on it in the country. Communists were delighted to proclaim a crusade against the "reactionary, fascist right," and hoping to tar the moderate right of Antoine Pinay with the Poujade brush. The net result of the brawling was to make the democratic parties of the center seem helpless and ineffectual...
Fairman thus said that it was a mistake for President Ensenhower arbitrarily to proclaim a state of mock martial law during the Civil Defense "Operation Alert" last June...