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...when we find men as dedicated as Adams, do we enjoy heckling them off their shaky roost? If they would compare the salaries and gift lists of Harlow Curtice, Henry Ford II, et al., it would make Adams' list look pretty trivial...
People generally mean by propaganda that which influences others but not themselves. Constant emphasis on propaganda thus carries the prideful risk of regarding other people as more gullible than oneself. This little lesson came home to roost last week. For two weeks the U.S. Government had been living uneasily with the prospect that the U.S.S.R. would announce unilateral suspension of nuclear weapons tests. Last week, when Russia did, even Secretary of State John Foster Dulles conceded that Russia had scored "a certain propaganda victory, or at least, a success...
...biography, the first appropriate to the scope and splendor of Wolsey's career, makes excellent reading on three counts: it evokes the vast historic tide that submerged the Middle Ages in the frothy waters of the Renaissance; it tells a whodunit about who would rule England's roost; and it is a success story of a butcher's son who rose to highest honors in his country and his church only to fall in the end. Though Biographer Ferguson (a Reader's Digest editor) takes a cool view of theological matters, the book always conveys...
...years later, Harry Scott Ashmore's words came home to roost-right on his own shoulders. In his post as executive editor of the Arkansas Gazette, he stood out last week as the strong voice for principle and reason in Little Rock and a central figure in the integration crisis...
...illusion is perfect, with the committee certainly discovering its impotence in the fray, but we'll bet our bottom forceps that Hoffa joins the capon ranks in no time. New Capon Hoffa, certainly economically "fattened for the table" (Webster), will join the docile when the committee leaves the roost for the chopping block...