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...shape than our own," he began. "I thought while I'm here, I might get a CIA subsidy." He shifted smoothly into an interpretation of the recent G.O.P. victory. "The people voted 'against' last Nov. 8," he said. "They voted against sharing the fruit of our toil with those who can, but don't work; against the stultifying hand of Government in everything; against the soup-kitchen philosophy of the '30s." He sat down to the biggest applause of the night...
...need to mention the salaries for secondary school teachers. When a summer or winter vacation comes, the problem that worries the professors most is how to make their living during the long, long holiday. Many of them are forced to change their calling to become waiters, to toil as farm hands or to act as circus clowns. Any work is better than teaching; naturally they have no heart for teaching. So strange are the educational circles in the United States! University students are being brought up only to become waste products, and the teachers, one after another, are switching themselves...
Plague & Piastres. When the first youths appeared and started shoveling away piles of garbage that had accumulated in the shantytown, the neighbors greeted their efforts with cynical amusement, figuring that the clean-cut do-gooders would soon tire of such dirty toil. One morning after two months, however, 90 locals turned out to help; from then on District 8 became a joint enterprise. Residents and student volunteers dredged 30 acres of dumps and swamps, dug drainage ditches and water reservoirs, carved out three miles of street. New homes have been started for 600 families. One hospital and 17 health centers...
...Temple University's "Encore Club" applauds TIME'S cover story, "The Command Generation" [July 29]. We "coeds over 21" applaud Temple for permitting us to toil amidst flaming youth-some of them our own offspring...
American hero worship is not necessarily nationalistic. Most Americans acknowledge Churchill as one of their greatest heroes, not only because he forged blood, toil, tears and sweat into victory, but because he seemed to embody, like a noble caricature, all the legendary qualities of the English. Not that pugnacity is essential. Americans see Pope John XXIII as a hero because he exuded love and managed to combine the saintly with the jolly. Many Americans would also accord the status of saint-hero to Albert Schweitzer, because they cherish the sentimental picture of the man who gave up the world...