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...crusaders of Christendom would press toward the East and raiding Asian conquerors would drive south and west in endlessly repeated waves, the Danube basin had already been overrun and evacuated by dozens of conquerors before Arpad arrived. To ensure their own survival, fierce Magyar expeditionary forces soon extended their realm far over the mountains to cover what is now most of Russia's Balkan satellite empire...
...belief extremely unlikely. While a plea for badness is not easy to support, a plea for the expression of bad thinking, as opposed to its repression in favor of silence and vacuity, is perhaps tenable. The academic presumption that silence is preferable to mediocrity hardly applies in the moral realm. People do have moral attitudes, even if they are untenable, and only in articulation is there hope for revision of these attitudes into more realistic and consistent form...
Marcelino (Charmartín; U.M.P.O.). In the 13th century after Christ, King Alfonso X of Castile and Leon, by his courtiers called "The Wise." commanded that a chronicle be made of all the miracles that in all times had occurred within the limits of his realm. It was done; and among the marvels that the scholars heard and dutifully set down was the story of Marcelino...
Hadrian's Wall. Today an invisible Hadrian's wall still divides British art into a realm of excitable, Celtic imagination that runs from Blake to Bacon on one side and a John Bull love of country, landscape and solid realities concretely rendered on the other. The impact of surrealism unleashed for the late Paul Nash and Graham Sutherland, both admirers of Blake, a freedom of fancy that has led them to the essence and mystery behind the English landscape, just as it inspired Sculptor Moore in his early bone and stone metamorphoses...
...John Sherman Cooper, but he would scarcely be likely to resign his newly-won Senate seat. Of the others, three men suggest themselves as successors to Dulles--Thomas E. Dewey, Christian A. Herter '15, and Henry Cabot Lodge '24. Lodge is the only one now working in the realm of foreign affairs, as U.N. delegate, but his record there is not impressive, He has rarely been more than efficient, and his best remembered act was a refusal to shake hands with a Russian delegate...