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...enough to attack. Our time will come in twenty or thirty years. To win we will need the element of surprise. The bourgeoisie will have to be put to sleep. So we shall begin by launching the most spectacular peace movement on record. There will be electrifying overtones and unheard-of concessions. The capitalistic countries, stupid and decadent, will rejoice to cooperate. As soon as their guard is down, we shall smash them with our clenched fist...
...Ministry of Education, including instruction in the Greek Orthodox religion. But the school is not an austere learning factory, as most Greek academies are. President Davis has spread the six-year Greek secondary-school program through seven years, has planned courses to goad students to independent thought, promoted an unheard-of give and take in classrooms. Davis will leave the school and Successor Rice with an encouraging financial boost; fortnight ago the Ford Foundation announced that it would give Athens College $250,000 for scholarships and salaries of Americans who will teach at the academy...
...system," symbolized by the dormitory key, the 'Cliffe "signs out" by writing her name and destination in a special book provided for the purpose. Permission to stay out later than 1 a.m. is fairly easy to obtain, in direct contrast to Wellesley, where special after-one permissions are almost unheard...
...Thames. He passes the side of a huge freighter, and thinking of a new vision, contorts his body like a statue of Mercury as he blocks out the imaginary lines. As Jimson passes under London Bridge, Nosey, the boy, calls out to him though he knows he will be unheard: "Michelangelo, Raphael, Picasso--you're one of them, Mr. Jimson...
...doctors had been debating how to dramatize the cause-and-effect relationship between smoking and such premature deaths, and Dr. Lister knew just what to do. On the death certificate, on the line for "cause of death," he wrote: "Carcinoma (cancer) of bronchus due to excessive smoking." This was unheard of. The registrar harrumphed, refused to accept the certificate. That meant there had to be an inquest-before Coroner R. Ian Milne, a layman who happens to be an unreformed smoker, Cried Milne: "I would take issue with any doctor who used such a term as 'excessive...