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...first of his published works to bear his name on the title page. Obviously he had no previous reputation as a poet, nor do most people remember him as one, though Boswell somewhere speaks of Johnson as "perpetually a poet" (a statement intended to refer to his quality of mind. The only two poems which appear to have survived in editors anthologies and readers affections are "London" and "The Vanity of Human Wishes," both based on satires of Juvenal...
They have insisted, therefore, on treating the East German regime as a pariah and its leaders as outlaws. They still refuse to speak of "the German Democratic Republic," and refer only to "East Germany" or the "Soviet zone." In 1953 the Eastern city of Chemnitz was renamed Karl Marx Stadt, yet this change is still not acknowledged in the West. The West Germans have made use of television broadcasts which can be received in the East to propagandize against the Communist government...
Instituted last January, the midweek free day has caught on so well at Emory that both students and faculty refer to it as "Wonderful Wednesday." Initially puzzled by what to do with their unexpected leisure, some students turned Wednesday into a midweek Sabbath, spent their mornings sleeping off Tuesday night's beer party. For others, though, Wednesday has turned out to be the busiest time of the week, and the library is always jammed with students catching up on assigned reading. "When I want to use a desk in the stacks, I have to get there early," says...
While former Chancellor Ludwig Erhard is known as the architect of the postwar economic recovery that West Germans refer to as the Wirtschaftswunder, a slight, self-assured man named Heinz Nordhoff is certainly one of the nation's master builders. Because he had run wartime Germany's biggest military truck plant, U.S. occupation authorities restricted him to manual labor. The more pragmatic British tapped him to revive a Wolfsburg auto factory which had been so badly bombed that, Nordhoff was later to recall, it "didn't even smell good enough for the Russians." That plant had once...
...Vietnam war just or unjust? My answer to this question must be an ambiguous one, not because I lack an opinion but because of the complex nature of international affairs. In so far as we refer to the war's inhuman aspects and atrocities, there can be no hesitation in calling it an outrage or a tragedy. But war has its own logic. Once it starts, it is bound to go its way--out of the control of the engaged. A succession of brutalities and a subsequent accumulation of hostile feelings increases the impetus to war, thereby leading into unexpected...