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Will it survive in the next? The full weight of the state is brought to bear on every twig, to bend it into a Communist attitude. The Marxist interpretation colors every subject that is taught in school, and after school the children are marshaled in youth battalions and kept too busy to think anything but what they are told to think. To gain its end. the state plays ruthlessly upon the natural ambitions of the young: boys and girls are warned that if they do not conform they will be denied admission to college...
...also carefully groomed a daringly different successor, Vice President Harry Ransom, who became president last fall when Wilson moved up to chancellor. Says one admiring facultyman of Ransom, who now becomes chancellor: "He doesn't just walk out on a limb for you. He climbs out on a twig, and jumps up and down on the leaf...
...wrong when he talks as if the United States were in a position to do anything about Fidel Castro. At first it seemed as though Kennedy were suggesting unilateral American action to topple Castro's government, but it turns out that he was only talking loudly and brandishing a twig, for he now seems to say that what he really meant was that any U.S. action should include the other Latin American nations. Since these nations are not about to sanction U.S. intervention of any sort (which would violate the letter and the spirit of the treaties they have induced...
Many have been to Harvard, and have had longer experience than I in its lore and renown. But I came with such an enthusiastic heart, and with such eager eyes that to me the meanest twig of Harvard is filled with awe and tradition...
Drooltide. In Birmingham. Christy Hillman, 2, had a coughing seizure, reached in her mouth, took out a three-pronged, three-inch cedar twig she had swallowed from last year's Christmas tree...