Word: readings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...this spirit the U.S.'s four-star General Lauris Norstad, Supreme Allied Commander in Europe, read an editorial to his staff one day last week from London's Daily Telegraph. It read: "Each European country has more to gain by augmenting America's retaliatory strength than it has to lose by becoming in the event of war a certain target for Russian assault . . . We must do everything necessary...
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Consider the fact that each undergraduate pays $125 for every course he takes. In return for this he gets 30 lectures, a reading list, a library from which the professor has usually withdrawn the course texts, and a grader to read the examination he does not want to write. If more professors paused to consider the number of students they inspire daily, multiply that number by $3.00, and ask themselves whether their lecture was worth so much money, the course might come closer to its assessed value...
Getting back to John Yovicsin, I want to say "Stick with John a few years and you won't be sorry." I read a lot about seven men quitting the Harvard football team and the reason for quitting. They (the sports writers) can't fool me. John just got the men separated from the boys...
Aron's cold hatred of Communism and his meticulous destruction of its myth, its mythologists and its common gulls make this a book that should be read in the U.S. Aron is writing mostly of French intellectuals, but much of what he says applies to many intellectuals elsewhere-their futurism, their dogmatic opposition to religion, their slavish conformity to the stale attitudes of "nonconformity," their long willingness to excuse Soviet crimes in the name of a higher aim (scathingly, Aron asks why so many had to wait for the Hungarian massacres to become indignant when the purge trials...