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...death, George Santayana '86 is a somewhat ambiguous figure, surround by the usual complement of myth and legend...
...Hoover inner circle, mostly old-guard Republicans, call him "the Chief" and surround him with veneration. Over powwows in his living room, the Chief presides with avuncular dignity. He does not monopolize the conversation but he dominates it, and when he speaks, no one interrupts him. No one slaps the Chief on the back, and no one tells him risque stories. The Chief's own humor is intellectual. He rarely laughs. He twinkles...
Remedy. What should the Republicans propose to remedy the situation? Said Taft: There is only one safe policy, to which all other policies must be incidental -"the building of an Air Force sufficiently large to control the air over this country, over the oceans which surround this continent, and able to deliver atom, bombs on Russian cities and manufacturing plants...
...resolution. But most doubt it will come about. "The resolution will never be enforced," said a Christian Arab, "because the big powers don't care about it. But even if the U.N. fulfilled its word, the two governments which now divide Jerusalem would fight it. The Israelis surround us on three sides and the Jordanians block us off on the fourth. We are in a prison...
Flashing neon lights surround Bernini's 17th century Triton fountain. A "surgical incision" in the side of a spandy new apartment house preserves an antique pillar. The Forum, "that lovely lake of time," is lit up at night like a model house. "The place is crawling with wires." Yet despite all this "enormity of the specific"-or perhaps directly through it-Rome makes its power felt in the beholder. "The city has its own language in time, its own vocabulary for the eye, for which nothing else was any preparation ... It is ... a vast untidiness peopled with characters...