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...Democratic floor leader for 17 years before succeeding Rayburn as Speaker in 1962. Although his name is associated with few major bills, his influence has been vast in the legislative field. McCormack is not a bookish man; his curiosity has seldom fastened on subjects outside his own political sphere. His skills are great as a behind-the-scenes negotiator, but House critics, mostly Northern and Western liberal Democrats, insist that he is too willing to compromise on basic principles. McCormack denies the charge, argues that all he is doing is "harmonizing differences...
Traditionally, NUSAS has been apolitical, limiting its activities to the educational sphere. It has rallied support against government efforts to further segregate higher education, set up tutorial projects at the abysmal "tribal" (native African) universities, and "kept Western ideas alive" among university students. But the detainment law and other repressive measures are "politicizing" NUSAS, Du Plessis said. "To draw a distinction between education and apartheid is unreal." And thus the uneasy peace between NUSAS and the government grows ever more tenuous...
...prosecutor originally announced that he intended to force the University to withdraw recognition from YSA. Aside from the fact that interference in University affairs is beyond the sphere of a public official, it has become increasingly obvious that Hoadley is using the case to advance his own political ambitions. Conducting what the Indiana student newspaper termed "trial by newspaper," the district attorney has consistently chosen the paths to justice most likely to make headlines...
...contribution of his own; bit through his relentless campaign for increased intellectual freedom Yevtushenko has made, and will continue to make, an important contribution to he artistic achievements of others. He and his allies will suffer setbacks, as they did last spring, but each time they will widen the sphere of freedom little further...
Gentle Birds. Braque's real master was Cezanne. And he followed his mas ters voice: "Treat nature in terms of the cylinder, the sphere and the cone." Braque found his cylinders, spheres and cones in still life-guitars, jugs, cigarette packages, knives and newspapers -and he projected his internal emotions into this world of objects. He painted few human figures, confessed that he found the human form ugly. While his comrade in Cubism, Picasso, was sensual, Spanish, and an endless innovator, Braque was rational, French, and restrained. As Braque explained in 1917: "The senses deform, the mind forms. Reality...