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...Every time we must choose between Europe and the open sea," Churchill told the French shortly before DDay, "we will choose the open sea." De Gaulle frequently cited that remark as evidence of Britain's incompatibility with Europe...
Kissinger has been heard to remark around Washington that "Nixon will save us from the hardhats"; but in his undergraduate days, the men alertinging him to the danger of historical collapse were made of more sterling stuff. Kissinger read with particular concern the works of Oswald Spengler, whose dire predictions about the fall of the West had a measurable impact on the young refugee student. The historical forces shaping his early background had recked of decadence. A colleague, Stanley Hoffmann, would remark later that Kissinger "walked in a way with the ghost of Spengler at his side...
...there is a deep sardonicism in his personality, a self-deprecating sense of humor which he would sometimes use to disarm his colleagues and at other times to make straightforward remarks which he would never have dared utter in a serious vein. "My problem," he once said to a Faculty coleague with a trace of a grin, "is that I was born arrogant"; the remark of a man who either thought himself above reproach or was perhaps entirely too blind about the roots of his own scornfulness...
...Harvard alumni in Maryland, in perhaps his last public speech, President Nathan Pusey made a passing remark on the difficulties of administering a college and university founded on the principle of freedom, when faculty and administrative personnel attended other colleges with other cultural traditions. How can members of the Harvard faculty and administration who never graduated from Harvard College, really understand the passion, or Puritanical zeal of Harvard College graduates for freedom and mutual respect in the search for truth? How can Harvard students, equipped by their faculty with a double standard on academic freedom, convince an American in grave...
Best in Years. The pros have snowed the profs. One returned a paper with the remark: "Best paper seen in years." The Babson faculty has pronounced Warren's activities "very distasteful," but the college plans no action against him on the theory that his customers are guilty of plagiarizing-not he. Harvard Dean of Students Archie Epps has asked university lawyers how the school can proceed against the sharpsters. In fact, the colleges are virtually powerless to prove a given paper was plagiarized...