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Becket's acceptance of martyrdom is the purest spiritual achievement in Eliot's play. He transcends even the temptation of becoming a martyr so that he may be worshipped. Corum has destroyed Eliot's clear position. He has decided to return the four tempters to stage as the knights who...
Macapagal's political program is more rhetorical than specific, but he has promised to welcome foreign investment, protect local industry, get the government out of nationalized business, and to bring "decency and prosperity" to the Philippines. He has pledged himself to the "principle of command responsibility" on graft. By...
Such are but a few of the countless revelations included in the editors' commentary, which fills a good half of the book. The other half consists of Khrushchev's own statements, few of which are allowed to pass without some kind of rejoinder in the commentary. When unable to fight...
Kennedy referred to complete, as opposed to nuclear, disarmament in vaguer but more rhetorical terms, demanding a "truce to terror" and saying that "together we shall save our planet--or together we shall perish in its flames." John N. Plank '45, assistant professor of Government and an expert on the...
Among major modern U.S. writers, Hemingway showed more internal discipline than Faulkner, who has ruined half his books with careless rhetorical obscurity, and more personal integrity than Fitzgerald, who potboiled and drank away the greatest natural gifts of the three as a novelist. Unlike Faulkner and Fitzgerald, Hemingway rarely dealt...