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...middle of a three-week run at the Copa, Bobby Darin exemplifies the shallowing reservoir of young U.S. pop singing talent-an immodest boy with modest ability, whose fan club has just a little more to crow about than the followers of Frankie Avalon or the Fabian societies. Yet Darin has made six LP albums that have sold more than 1,500,000 copies. His trademark single recordéa driving version of Kurt Weill's Mack the Knife-has sold more than 2,000,000 copies. He has all the bookings he can handle in America...
Millikan also saw the Corps as valuable in building a reservoir of Americans with understanding of other cultures and in providing an outlet for the desire of American youth to "dedicate themselves to a constructive cause...
...vividly. Nor did he mention the other 20,000 soldiers of the Army's 2nd Division, who fought just as-bravely as the 8,000 marines in the French forest. There is no question that the marines displayed surpassing gallantry at Belleau Wood and Guadalcanal and Chosin Reservoir and countless other places, but, says McKean, their exploits have been frequently and flagrantly exaggerated. Items...
...Rationalism. What is the non-Catholic to make of natural law? The Founding Fathers certainly accepted the concept, in one form or another, much of it having reached them through the English common law out of the vast reservoir of Christian tradition. Murray thinks that the Bill of Rights was far less a "piece of 18th century rationalist theory [than] the product of Christian history." In fact, to some it may seem that Murray at times regards the U.S. as having sprung directly from medieval Christianity-he calls St. Thomas "The First Whig"-with hardly any help from Protestantism...
...observer of the world could find a lot of evidence to make a case that U.S. prestige, if not at an "alltime high," is nevertheless high. The massive displays of popular approval that President Eisenhower encountered on his trip around the world in 1959 showed a vast reservoir of affection and good will toward the U.S., even in countries that count themselves neutral in the cold war. Western Europe, with its thriving economies, has unmistakably opted for the U.S. way rather than the Russian way of organizing society and producing goods. In most of the free world, the popular appeal...