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Does Jimmy Carter really think that a President can "hide in the White House" as he has accused Jerry Ford of doing? If so, Carter is in for a rude shock should...
...Rude Comments. The argument involved virtually every area of Chinese life. In education, for example, the radicals' approach prompted them to admit students to universities on the basis of proletarian origins and "correct" political views rather than academic attainments and test scores. One of their favorite policies has been the rustification program, in which city-educated youths have had to spend indefinite periods working on agricultural communes to "learn from the peasants." Only a small number of the most radical ones would then be chosen to go to a university. The result of this, complained moderate Education Minister Chou...
...strangers," it promises hospitality. I don't think the offer is ever made falsely or frivolously. Greeks are fascinated and amused by strangers, by differences, though not all tourists fit the category. Hordes of them are off-handedly dismissed as "the American" or "the Germans" or, in one rude case, "those Yugoslav barbarians." It's not hard to understand why: There are simply too many, and they hurry through the same monotonous motions. The people who both gave and took hospitality were those who, like a lot of Greeks, enjoyed the feeling of peculiarity or singularity in others and themselves...
...German expressionists. He was, Keating blithely admitted, "a terrible faker. Anyone who sees my work and thinks it genuine, must be around the bend." Moreover, Keating said, he did not mean his phonies to pass close tests: before setting to work he would scrawl "fake," "Keating" or a suitable rude word on the blank canvas, in lead-based paint, which would show up under X rays. Nevertheless, many of the works ended up in leading galleries and auction rooms, where, endowed with signatures and solid pedigrees, they were sold for even more solid prices...
...Soviet officials said they might boycott the weekend events if a 17-year-old Russian diver who defected on Thursday was not returned. Meanwhile America's Dwight Stones, the world-record-holding high jumper known as "the Mouth with Legs," was quoted as saying that French Canadians were "rude, discourteous and ignorant." Before slipping to third place in the Montreal rain, Stones, who made public apology by donning an I LOVE FRENCH CANADIANS T shirt on Saturday, relished the uproar that resounded throughout the Stadium whenever he jumped. "This is not a show. It's the Olympics," chastised...