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...course, McCarthy's efforts to unearth Communist rats (not "witches"), and bring the issue of Communist infiltration before the people, has caused this unequaled concentration of venom to be directed on him. His success is to be gauged by the violence of attacks made...
Every bit as important as the decisions is the Corporation's way of reaching them and it is here that the Senior Fellows deserve the most applause. The time they spent, the painstaking way they worked, the care they showed for every relevant fact they could unearth, and the anxiousness they showed to amass the views of faculty members--these show the immense store of fairness and rationality that the Corporation brought to this most vexed issue. Compared to the fury and irrationality which marked the investigation's usual impact, the Corporation's quiet and thorough procedure deserves high tribute...
...Remembering that Richard M. Nixon was one of the men who helped unearth the data in the Alger Hiss matter reminded me very much of my high-school days when we read Cicero's Orations in Latin, and how Cicero castigated Catiline for electing to betray Rome rather than use his talents to further the Roman State. The same is so aptly true about these two men. Another interesting angle is that both of them are of the Society of Friends ... It would seem that of the two, Hiss had by far the greater advantages in influence and training...
...Novels Grow. It was 1889 before anyone bothered to unearth the MS. from the library of Grenoble (Stendhal's birthplace) and transcribe the muddled pages of handwriting. The result, now translated into English for the first time, has been praised by some critics as the masterpiece of Stendhal's career. "Nowhere as in Lamiel," says Poet Louis Aragon, "is the real world to be found in Stendhal...
...scandal they were talking about was first turned up last month by Reporters George Thieni of the Chicago Daily News and Roy Harris of the Post-Dispatch. Thiem and Harris, who were covering the state capitol at Springfield, had spent two weeks digging through old Illinois state payrolls to unearth the smelly story. At least 33 Illinois editors & publishers of small-town newspapers, they reported, had been paid a total of $305,000 by the State of Illinois during the two terms of Republican Governor Dwight Green, defeated last November. Their relatives had pocketed another...