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...little in the cultural output known to most Westerners, we ought not to grudge them title to this music any more than the English grudge the Edward Fitzgerald (or we begrudge the English their claim to Handel--for poor old England has produced so few great composers to swell her national pride...
Military authorities argue that if ROTC credits are cut, the number of applications would fall off drastically and the quality of students entering the units might also decline. But this need not be the case. The post-war swell in the number of ROTC men came with the mounting fears caused by the Korean hostilities. Although the danger is by no means over, there is no longer the sense of urgency that characterized the first two years of the 'fifties, when it seemed a case of join the ROTC or be drafted out of College. Students who join...
None of this bothers Harry Grant, who talks about the Journal with the purple sweep of a Fourth of July orator and the fervor of an evangelist. Says he: "The Journal must be our Fair Lady. We must have freedom, freedom, freedom-not to be willful, or bigoted, or swell-headed, or to give us delusions of grandeur-but so that the Journal can act entirely as it thinks best for the community. The Journal is above our frailties. The Journal's job is to serve the public. It can't be anything else...
...while Eisenhower's popularity in Texas is also dropping steadily, an undercurrent of McCarthyism continues to swell. Two weeks ago, State Secretary Ben Shepard revoked the organizing privileges of three independent unions, claiming they were Communist controlled. His charges have not been proven, and it is generally felt that they are designed to boost his chances for a gubernatorial nomination. Experts feel that McCarthy himself is popular enough in Texas to win almost anything except a presidential race. Indeed, any Republican would lose. It looks as if Texas will be back in the Democratic fold come...
Then one day, in a manner as yet undiscovered, the conditions for reproduction and fertilization occur. Male desert locusts come on the scene, and the quiet females suddenly forsake their love of solitude. Side by side with their new consorts, they swell the deadly locust swarm, trapped in the toils of their own mob psychology...