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...century. It was a ringing inaugural. Standing on the steps of the capitol of the Confederacy in Richmond, Holton proclaimed: "Let our goal in Virginia be an aristocracy of ability, regardless of race, color or creed." As if that were not enough for a genteel white Virginia to swallow in one day, Holton went on to invoke a provocative memory: "Let us, as Lincoln said, insist upon an open society 'with malice toward none; with charity...
...callboy, and by 1925 achieved matinee-idol status portraying François Villon in Rudolf Friml's musical The Vagabond King. When he starred three years later in The Three Musketeers, one critic wrote: "He has the voice of a canary, the grace of a swallow and the valor of an eagle." Equally at home in operettas and Shakespearean tragedies, the versatile baritone counted A Doll's House, Billy Budd, Rose-Marie and Affair of Honor among his numerous stage credits. King also starred in several Hollywood films and occasionally appeared on television. He was last seen...
...from breaking away to establish Bangla Desh, an independent Bengal state. But the strain of the undertaking is overtaxing West Pakistan's resources and nerves. "This regime has East Pakistan stuck in its throat," says one American diplomat in the federal capital of Islamabad. "The army must either swallow it or cough...
...Princeton you've got to swallow everything the first year. It's like a damned prep school. " Amory agreed. " Lot of pep, though, " he insisted. " I wouldn't have gone to Yale for a million. " -"This Side of Paradise...
...this is not an accurate assessment of student thinking. I would be happy to be corrected. But if it is. does the student body of Harvard College really think us 150,000 slobs, the Harvard alumni, will swallow this double standard on academic freedom which the student body evidently has swallowed hook, line, and sinker? In 1952. the threat to academic freedom came from outside Harvard Yard, from a Senate hearing room in the United States Capitol. The way it looks from grassroots Maryland, the threat to freedom today at Harvard comes from within the walls of Harvard Yard, within...