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Minor Statesman Tom Connally, chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee, gave him shrewd advice. No one had objected to the amendment, so why stir up a fuss? Singh sat back, watched the UNRRA bill−with the Mundt amendment wrapped in-sail through the Senate...
...want to know news such as that at the time it is news. Such withholding until circumstances are auspicious - to stir up public feeling during a war-bond drive- makes me sick, and must make thousands of other American citizens extremely cynical and unhappy at the evident mistrust held by responsible authorities of the average American citizen...
...latter, alone, would stir a possessive itch. The plates are so handsome as to prove that, even in reproduction, fine drawings can give a tactile pleasure in addition to their esthetic worth. De Tolnay's definition of drawing includes some forms of watercolor work, and the whole range of tools -swan and goose quill, silverpoint, chalk, charcoal, pencil. His "Old Masters" range from an unknown Egyptian artist's outline drawing of Rameses IV to a 18th Century sleeping figure by Toulouse-Lautrec. Along the way are such choice items as Giovanni Battista Tiepolo's gracious chalk masterpiece...
...that the present century is to be the Century of the Common Man. We are all of us to go down on our knees . . . and worship the Common Man. . . . Well, I am an old man, and old men are not ready converts to new religions. This one does not stir my soul.... I like to think that on the morning of January the first, in the year 2000, mankind will be free to . . . rise from its knees and look about it for some other, and perhaps more rational, form of faith. I like also to think that ... in the great...
...youngster . . . doesn't know what he is saying . . . [but] knows it creates a stir. . . . If the adult is shocked and sharply forbids . . . the child will use the phrase over and over . . . the teacher [should] let the obnoxious expression go the first few times. . . . Often . . . it will wear itself out. . . . If you correct a child and he answers, 'My father says that' . . . you must . . . [avoid] discrediting his home. . . . It must be pointed out. . . that, although those words may be used at home, [they] cannot be . . . at school...