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...week's end, as an uneasy calm settled on Brno and the rest of Czechoslovakia, the government began to clamp tighter controls on the country. To justify the crackdown, Rude Prdvo, the Communist Party's paper, said that the riots were evidence of "counterrevolutionary activity as was known in Hungary in 1956." Many Czechoslovaks feared that the statement might presage mass political arrests and trials...
There is a fine Gallic impudence to the notion: take Robinson Crusoe, that age-of-reason parable of Western civilization's triumph over rude nature, and turn it upside down. In this position Crusoe's diligence, rationality, racial pride and Christian ethics-the very qualities that in Defoe's handling ensured Crusoe's survival-get lost while Crusoe accepts the "primitive" values of his black manservant. Call the book Friday to make the irony unmistakable. So much for Western civilization...
...questions to Mr. Pusey regarding Harvard's real estate policies in general, and the condition of the building in particular. The President was so outraged by this line of inquiry that he instructed his top aide, William Bentick-Smith, to call the Globe management and lodge a complaint about "rude question...
...Guide's main attractions is the dining recommendations. Fielding fails to mention many good European restaurants -usually for a reason. Perhaps the waiters do not speak English, or the maitre is invariably rude to Americans. Sometimes Fielding leaves one out simply because it is too good and already has all the business it can handle. Why spoil it for himself with a flood of U.S. tourists? Occasionally, Fielding just trips up. To fill gaps in the 1969 Guide, TIME asked its correspondents in London, Paris, Rome and Madrid to describe some notable Fielding omissions. Their recommendations...
...cabinet which, with a policy of half measures and a fettered military system, comes upon an adversary who, like the rude element [of war], knows no other law than that of his intrinsic strength. Every deficiency in activity and effort is then a weight on the scales in favor of the enemy. Then it is not so easy to change from the fencing posture into that of an athlete, and a slight blow is often sufficient to throw the whole to the ground...