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Democracy won't have to smother...
...federal aid to education program last year, many a professional educator greeted the news with hoots, and even anger. The President's major proposal-$200 million to be spent on school construction over three years-seemed hopelessly inadequate, and the various stipulations attached to the giving threatened to smother the whole program in red tape. Last week, "in the light of a full year of further experience and study, in the light of congressional hearings and the White House Conference on Education...
...remains true that he is trying to bring about my apostasy, and I hate him just in proportion as I fear his success. Heretics have been hateful from the beginning of recorded time; they have been ostracized, exiled, tortured, maimed and butchered; but it has generally proved impossible to smother them, and when it has not, the society that has succeeded has always declined...
...talked about the goodness of God, never His wrath. "Why," he asked in one sermon, "should we attribute to God the capital sin of Anger?" He complained that there were too many flowers in the church: "When you smother the altar in flowers you take away from its original beauty." He even objected to feast-day processions. "I am deeply shocked," he wrote his superiors, "by the neopaganism of the masses." Father Dubois did not believe in collections, either, never pleaded for money to buy a new altar cloth or fix the roof, and packed his eight Sunday services with...
...worked out when she made lunch for Artist Pablo Picasso. He "exclaimed at its beauty" and modestly protested that it should have been created in honor of Matisse instead. In Palma de Mallorca, a French cook almost started a riot in the market place by showing Alice how to smother pigeons (the cook said it made them fuller and tastier). The information came in handy when Alice fixed some braised pigeons on croutons for Gertrude, using six "sweet young corpses" choked by her own hands. Her Frangipani Tart (decorated with homemade French and American flags) was the dessert following...