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...perfectly true that we have a legal right to slam our doors in their faces, although if I may be facetious, most doors in the Houses have an automatic closer attached which makes door-slamming a job for some Hercules. But it is both needless and rude to do so even if it were physically possible, especially since a little bit of imagination could put an end to the problem once and for all. Harvey M. Chester...
...have read in Saturday's CRIMSON (26 April) your editorial entitled Rude Awakening and we were rudely awakened by the attitude the CRIMSON seems to take that the group of earnest young men who were among us last week-end (18-20 April) should have their wrists slapped and be censured for their "impoliteness." It may be true that some of their door-knocking aroused from slumber a few apathetic Harvard men. We should like to point out however, that their methods of inviting people to come to their meetings, which you refer to as shock tactics, were ever...
...start of history. All Africa, south of the Sahara, is still governed by white men. Liberia is the diminutive exception. Some of these governments-those that have offered their Africans education-are now faced with the same racial grief, the same unselective resentment which has led before to the rude rejection of all the gentle things for which the West stands. In the face of this mounting opposition, some of the permanent white populations have reacted strongly. They have, in effect, set a ne plus ultra to the march of their black peoples. They have tried to preserve their status...
...Belgians are independent cusses. At Baudouin's announcement, there were angry protests. After all, Belgium had been born with Britain's help, and with Britain's help twice liberated from the Germans. Besides, said Belgians, Baudouin was just being rude. Premier Jean van Houtte's government suppressed the announcement of the King's refusal while it tried to talk...
Stung into rage, Hsieh shot back: "Your statement is rude and absurd. You've gone too far in your absurdity and arrogance. You've reversed black and white. Your statement proves your lack of sincerity. You've fully exposed your ugly, ferocious features of a bandit...