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...good, my compatriots, that you should not breathe a word of it to anybody, not even to your own soul for fear of having to judge yourself. The years of silence have been degrading and futile, for today the blinding sun of tor ture lights the whole country. There is not a laugh which sounds right, not a face which does not use makeup to mask anger or fear, not an act which does not betray our disgust and our complicity...
According to the original 1872 inden- ture creating the trust, the money left by James Arnold was to be for the promotion of horticulture agriculture, and related fields...
...present a coherent argument, to marshal facts to support it, to organize effectively, and to express themselves clearly. Reuben Brower assigns four or five papers in his English 162, as does Robert P. Wolff in Social Sciences 140. Richard Poirier, in his courses on American and English litera- ture, is another who gives frequent paper assignments, believing the act of writing to be the most important way of transforming feelings and intimations into real knowledge...
...ALFRED FRIENDLY, 49, managing editor of the Washington Post, who considers most journalism courses worthless, accuses journalism schools of training students in the same way that "the department of home economics teaches the fu ture dietitian...
...what the world needs more of. It is disarming and somewhat startling to find a celebrated soldier, whatever the specific merits of his wartime role, writing without an ounce of embarrassment in praise of prudence, justice, temperance, fortitude, honor, courage and truthfulness. His aim is to define the na ture of leadership, and he believes that all those qualities-together with sincerity, selflessness and the ability "to master events"-are necessary ingredients. Unfortunately, Montgomery never conies closer to a real definition of leadership than this catalogue of virtues...