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...nobles were the first to get stuck. Although their duties as administrators of the realm enabled them to put a check on the absolute power of the crown, their panicked reaction to the Emancipation in 1861 revealed the large extent of their dependence on the use of the monarch's serfs for survival. Realizing this, the nobles began to accept what was given to them a little more gratefully, living out the Russian "conviction" that the path way to wealth lies not in fighting the authorities but in collaborating with them. And Pipes argues that with trade and manufacture...
...bused black groups over their black peers remaining in segregated schools. These gains were reported in black achievement levels, paragraph meaning comprehension, mental ability, school achievement, reading and arithmetic. This leaves five studies. Three of these (Evanston, Boston-Metco and White Plains) must be eliminated from the realm of conclusive evidence due to a lack of control or comparison groups. The remaining two studies (Riverside and Ann Arbor) found no differences between bused and secregated blacks, but Riverside did not control for social class, and Ann Arbor tested students only one year after busing plans were altered...
...same tune, Gibney points out, modern Japan was largely created in the American image during the postwar occupation. Japan's deep-rooted psychological dependence on the U.S., in fact, is an extension into the realm of international relations of a chain of dependence and corresponding obligation between the younger, poorer and weaker and the old, rich and more powerful that runs from top to bottom in Japanese life. As Gibney compares and contrasts the two countries, he reflects on how our own industrial superpower-individualistic, given to philosophical absolutes and brusque manners-might profit from the example...
Douglas looked thin and frail; his left arm hung useless. The old vigor was not there: his eyes at times seemed glassy, fixed in another realm; his voice was thin, almost inaudible, and he occasionally stuttered. Asked if he had left Walter Reed without his doctors' permission, the Justice sat silent. (Douglas had obtained an overnight pass, then refused to check back into the hospital...
...this is well and good, as are Wilson's command of visual space and dance consciousness, but in the realm of language he makes Gertrude Stein at her murkiest sound like a paragon of pellucid clarity...