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Obviously, this is no field for anyone wanting little more than a cocktail knowledge of his concentration. Even non-honors men must purchase their shorn degrees with a 10,000 word essay, also due March 1st. Anyone graduating with a History and Literature diploma has spent several hours wondering if it was worth the effort, and the usual answer is an overwhelming...
...those years may now be repeated in a number of other (and more basic) crops. Neither the New Deal nor the Fair Deal solved the farm problem. In the mid-'30s artificial scarcity concealed the problem; in the 1940s, temporary high demand obscured it. Now the old question, shorn of its camouflage, has landed on Benson...
...Shorn Trees. The Sussex Ashburn-hams, described in the earlier Burke's as "a family of stupendous antiquity," dating back well before the Norman Conquest, were cut off in the new Burke's without a single pre-Norman ancestor. Sir Fleetwood Ashburnham, 83, present patriarch of the family, was unmoved. "My ancestors," he humphed, "had other things to do during the Conquest than keep their archives straight for Burke's. They were defending England...
...fighting Army." Voorhees charged that most correspondents were "extreme" pessimists who sowed "doubt and fear among Americans as to the skill and honesty of Army leaders." They seemed, he says, "indifferent to the consequences of their dispatches. They appeared to pretend they operated in a vacuum, above criticism, shorn of responsibility, answerable to no one or nothing save the signers of their paychecks." Some correspondents broke, or evaded, censorship, says Voorhees, and deliberately misinterpreted communiques...
...Word. Shorn of its doublespeak, the word was cynically frank. Henceforth, said the Leader, the Soviet Union will openly and officially export revolution to capitalist countries. Since 1936, when Stalin declared that the "export of revolution is nonsense,"* the U.S.S.R. and its underlings abroad have publicly maintained the fiction that foreign Communist parties are independent, national organizations, unconnected, except by ideology, with the fountainhead in Moscow. Stalin's speech made little attempt to continue the fiction...