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Certainly the substitute which the Council proposes is an unreal and valueless one. It is but another of the interminable and inconsequential inter-college bull sessions. The NSA is an action group. Moreover, the Council's ersatz NSA will have little or no remedial effect on the real article. The supposition that NSA relies on Harvard support for its prestige and will mend its admittedly mendable ways because of Harvard's withdrawal is a preposterous one. The same technique failed when Soviet Russia walked out of the U.N., and there is no indication that it increases in efficacy...
...super-colossal spectacle, costing $6,000,000, running 3^ hours, and employing a dozen topflight stars and some 8,000 extras, it rivals Gone With the Wind. But as a reflection of Tolstoy's absorbed peeling back of the contradictory layers of human nature, it is nearly valueless. In his tremendous novel, Tolstoy's characters are so alive that they seem more like family and friends than fictional creations. On the VistaVision screen, these same people are only too clearly actors more accustomed to sports shirts and pedal pushers than to the finery of igth century courts...
...would be an even more dangerous error for Congress to suggest that nations receiving U.S. aid will eventually accept a foreign policy dictated from Washington. Already, arguments to this effect have boomerang: some Congressmen now cite unchanged neutralist foreign policies as proof that U.S. aid is valueless to this country. Mr. Dulles put the counter argument well: "Our interest will be fully served if other nations maintain their independence and strengthen their free institutions. We have no further aims than these...
...same decree, Washington recognized another problem which is equal cause for keeping debates on integration out of politics--the innumerable local variations that preclude any one formula for successful desegregation. Any candidate who commits himself to one road toward integration will probably find that his statements are pretty valueless when applied to any particular local situation...
...true that the American reading public has been kicked, beaten, ridiculed, and generally pummelled for the last three decades. Throughout this time the "affirmatives" have been brooding and grumbling about the contrast between America's spectacular rise to Number One Nation, and its authors castigation of directionless, valueless, hypocritical America. In the same period the "anti-affirmatives" have been gaily dancing and clicking their heels, gurgling something very much like "Oh boy, oh boy." So now, with the appearance of Marjorie Morning-star, the tables are turned, and everybody is making himself just as ridiculous, if not more...