Word: says
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Individual Responsibility. Kennedy argues that such critics misunderstand the policeman's role. And he is angrily suspicious that sometimes they do not even understand their own. Says he: "They say some young punk is 'the product of his environment.' Well, who isn't? They say 'He suffered a traumatic experience in his youth.' Well, most of us have. They say 'He's the victim of a broken home.' Well, there are lots of kids from broken homes who didn't become vengeful and take it out on someone else...
Tribal & Local. After two months of civil war, he still refuses to say that he will not seek reelection, points only to his Premier's statement of last May that his government will not press this goal. "Since the crisis began," says a Beirut observer, "Chamoun has not said one word to his people. He talks only to foreign diplomats and foreign newsmen." He has declined to call Parliament into session; he has rejected repeated rebel - and third force - offers to compromise. He insisted last week that he has "a substantial majority in the country...
...floors are so weak that the number of guests invited to receptions have had to be cut. What No. 10 needs, said the White Paper, is nothing less than a complete "structural overhaul" at a cost of at least ?400,000 ($1,120,000). Once again sensible men could say that the most economical course would be to tear the whole place down. But as usual, even sensible men will agree in the end that London would not really be London without the original, precarious and thoroughly beloved...
...recent style in novelty numbers: the use of speeded-up or doctored tape to achieve nonsensical vocal effects. The Little Blue Man climbed the charts briefly because it had a whiningly metallic voice whispering "I wuv you" at periodic intervals; a new record called What'd He Say? consists of a series of bewildered questioners trying to ungarble answers that invariably degenerate into taped gobbledygook just when it looks as if they were going somewhere. The most successful of the species, and the one that everybody wants to imitate, is Singer Sheb Wooley's Purple People Eater, which...
...Americans would dare say about their country what Author Maritain says-for fear of being accused of extreme patriotic partiality, even of jingoism. But France's Jacques Maritain loves America. And, unlike most European (or American) intellectuals, who are apt to be apologetic or patronizing when they praise the U.S., Maritain proclaims his love with unstinted ardor. Having taught in and known the U.S. for almost a quarter of a century, Philosopher Maritain is familiar with America's authentic face and voice; yet he remains enough of a stranger to stress truths that are overlooked or taken...