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...that whatever constancy is found in the image and attributes of a particular divinity is due to the myths. The poets imagined vividly the gods' lives, giving them traits, predilections, and animosities, he said. The ordinary man, however, sensed the presence and activity of the gods in a much vaguer form...
...Election of 1959 by running on a platform of material prosperity--implying rather crassly that if everyone were well-to-do, everyone's antagonism would disappear. This line has, of course, lost much of its appeal since Selwyn Lloyd's austere economic reforms, and Mr. Macmillan (who has grown vaguer and vaguer in the last two years) was content at the Brighton conference to substitute for "prosperity" a few irritating cliches about a "unified Britain...
Kennedy referred to complete, as opposed to nuclear, disarmament in vaguer but more rhetorical terms, demanding a "truce to terror" and saying that "together we shall save our planet--or together we shall perish in its flames." John N. Plank '45, assistant professor of Government and an expert on the United Nations, felt that "the propagandist line came through quite clearly there." But Plank added that Kennedy used the General Assembly "precisely as it should be used"--to persuade people rather than hammer out programs...
...danger that the office will degenerate into a sinecure is real. These possibilities cannot be codified as a statement of exact duties, and the varying needs of the different Houses make the Fellow's role even vaguer. The success of the program will therefore depend entirely on the vigor and interest of the Master and Fellows in each House, their willingness to seek out ideas and to experiment. To help the Fellows establish a definition of the Office, they should be formed as a distinct body that would coordinate their activities and pass on ideas...
...picked followers. He created an amateur army of commandos who flung vegetables and abuse at rival speakers or broke up their meetings. He broadened his appeal, organized affiliates for peasants, youth, workers, professionals. He preached only discontent, "throw the rascals out." As it wore on, his campaign grew vaguer. "My program is to have no program," he declared. He put up 819 candidates, made each take an oath never to take a position not approved personally by Poujade under penalty of "all the punishments reserved for traitors." What punishment did he intend? "Very simple, hanging," said Poujade breezily, and grinned...