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Permit me, however, to protest vehemently against your last remark about "blind hatred that excuses the Jewish terror," which your reviewer claims to be not different from the extermination activities of the Nazis! To us Israelis who have fought for our freedom as an ill-armed minority against a well-equipped army (and for a just cause), a comparison to mass slaughter-by an organized military power-of innocent defenseless people, is just shocking...
Reading through a big collection of short stories is like staying too long at a noisy party. Individual impressions blur; one woman waiting uncertainly with an unlit cigarette becomes all women with that mannerism, and a silly remark made once too often makes fools, unfairly, of all who repeat it. Similarly, the impression persists that at least one-quarter of these Conrad Aiken stories begin with characters waking up in the morning, and that most of his women have "the blackest and fiercest eyes I have ever seen." The repetitions may not be important-short stories are not meant...
Possibly Harvard will be able to get along well without Mac, but the remark manages to show something of the way in which Bundy in the last few years seems to have grown larger than his job, and has wielded the Dean's powerful mace with an influence unusually strong...
...highly fond of retiring Secretary Thomas Gates, sighed at the thought of educating the fourth Secretary in eight years, and some recalled the memory of the lackluster regime (1953-57) of another automan, General Motors ex-President "Engine Charlie" Wilson. (In an echo of Wilson's oft-quoted remark, a newsman asked McNamara: "Do you believe that what's good for Ford is good for the country?" Replied McNamara: "I shall act in the interest of the country. That is all I will say on the subject...
Armed with his rare education, Abubakar returned to the windswept Bauchi Plateau and settled down on the staff of a Boys Middle School; he was a born teacher, and might have spent his life there except for a chance remark by a friend, who said that no northern Nigerian had ever passed the examination for a Senior Teacher's Certificate. Piqued by this reflection on northern intelligence, Abubakar took the exam and, to the astonishment of southern colleagues, passed it with ease. Impressed, London University's Institute of Education granted him a scholarship...