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...Hour Is Coming. Bias Roca was ready with his apparatus, and with his made-in-Moscow policies. Now he offered both to Castro, who had defeated Batista but had not the vaguest idea how to run Cuba, or carry on his revolution...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Hemisphere: Moscow's Man in Havana | 4/27/1962 | See Source »

...humor of the loser as it's performed today has in all but a few cases become the humor of the master. And it retains not the vaguest memory of the dissatisfied, underfed, rebellious child it used to be. Its observations are easy to come by. It has gone from "I'm not kidding about everything being wrong" to "I'm only kidding about everything being wrong." It has become button down. It has grown...

Author: By Jules Feiffer, | Title: Satire, Must Skirt Its Own Cliches | 3/23/1962 | See Source »

...essay with, 'David Hume, the greatest Scottish philosopher, brought empiricism to its logical extreme. If this be the spirit of the age in which he lived, then he was representative of it." This generality expert has already taken his position for the essay. Actually he has not the vaguest idea what Hume really said, or in fact what he said in it, or in fact if he ever said anything. But by never bothering to define empiricism, he may write indefinitely on the issue virtually without contradiction. Of course, some people are naturally conservative; they prefer to avoid taking...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Beating the System | 1/22/1962 | See Source »

...each knot in the Laotian crisis almost justifies the British government's faith that a settlement is immanent. The importance of a cease-fire, the return of the international commission to Laos, and a 14-power conference to settle the future of that faction-torn land--all are, in vaguest outline, agreed on. The latest Russian note indicates that Khrushchev is willing to be reasonable though unhurried...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Laos | 4/21/1961 | See Source »

Comments of most passers-by revealed they had only the vaguest idea of what the shelter proposal calls for. For the most part, their reactions to the picketers were tolerant but unenthusiastic. One man, though, thought "They should all be put in jail...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Protest of Bomb Shelter Greeted by Public Apathy | 2/9/1961 | See Source »

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