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...turn-of-the century days, when the Germanic Museum was first planned, German-American relations were at a peak. Gifts from Kaiser Wilhelm II and other Germans were warmly received by Harvard officials. Adolphus Busch, St. Louis beer magnate and the museum's chief financial benefactor, could comfortably proclaim, at an elaborate 1912 cornerstone ceremony, the on vocation, "Forever live the good entente between Germany and the United States." Five years later, just as major work on the museum was completed, America entered World...
...compulsory socialization of the kindergartner, the pack-running of the adolescent, and the group-thinking of their parents, proclaim with one voice that the individual is obsolete...
...would take a bold reader to proclaim that the year produced a single first-rate novel, but it would take a truly dull type to deny that he found some diverting and even arresting reading. The novelists, for all their technical skill, seemed unable to cope effectively with their time, man's fate or even man's heart. And the reading public was on to the situation: nonfiction outsold fiction by a wide margin...
...state of East Pakistan (pop. 42 million). His proposal was endorsed by the army's powerful Major General Iskander Mirza; civil servants are already drawing up the changes "that will be necessary." Premier Mohammed Ali (who retains his office by courtesy of Ghulam) took to the radio to proclaim : "These political divisions were perhaps necessary to foreign rule. The British divided and weakened us. Today such divisions are wasteful luxury...
What then limits the corporation? Berle goes back to William the Conqueror's ancestor Duke Rollo, who, along with his successors in Normandy and England, was about as absolute a wielder of power as political history knows. Yet Rollo, says legend, was impelled to proclaim that any subject who felt aggrieved could appeal to him by crying "Ha Rollo." This appeal to "the conscience of the King" became the foundation of liberties as the Western world knows them...