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...infinitely smaller sense, it is bad business (and bad sales) to be depreciatory toward geographic locations or abnormal unfortunates. Say 'For the tourists from Cornville' rather than 'For the tourists from Sioux City.' Say 'For the Gay Boys,' or similar, without scorn. We sell books. They buy them???much more than one would think." Fielding, in fact, would just as soon avoid calling them tourists. "Nobody likes that," he says, and in his Guide, he goes out of his way to use synonyms ("travelers," "voyagers," "vacationers"), euphemisms ("pilgrims") and conceits ("Guidesters...
...course, the general's departure mattered to France. Most Frenchmen woke up in the first days of what might be called A.D. (After De Gaulle) slightly dazed and a little disbelieving at what they had wrought. Some had doubted De Gaulle's resolve when he told them???arbitrarily, as always?that a non vote would really end his rule. Others, long accustomed to the Gaullist unexpected, wondered whether it was really for keeps, or whether De Gaulle might not still somehow come thundering back into the arena. Above all, the French, the inveterately rationalist sons and daughters of Descartes...
...Congress. "In all truth," he told a congressional committee, "many academic institutions have brought much of it on themselves. They have not always responded to the clear need of any viable institution for constant self-examination and self-renewal. In attempting to serve many masters?Government and industry among them???they have tended to serve none of them well...
...Nixon has a passion for order and neatness. His trip to five European capitals this week, his first presidential journey abroad and the first European trip by an American President since 1963, is the very model of thoughtful planning and meticulous execution. Unfortunately, events?and the men who control them???do not always lend themselves to order and neatness. By their very nature, problems have a way of cropping up at the most inappropriate times. Even before the President left on his eight-day journey, it was obvious that the U.S. had a lot of work...
However negative black anti-Semitism may be, it can have a positive aspect for both democracy and the Jew. If the U.S. is to be a genuinely pluralistic society, then its goal is not to assimilate minorities, but to let them???within reason?live together, each in its own way. The Jews have had practice in this. The black is just beginning the course, and it is unfortunate that part of the cost of his tuition must be paid by Jewish tolerance. But so long as U.S. society repudiates the anti-Semitic hostility of the black and prevents it from...