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...less easy to dismiss the venom spewed forth next day by Saudi Arabia's Ahmed Shukairy. Speaking for the Arab princes who live on the royalties from U.S. oil companies, Shukairy exhorted the Western powers to get out of the Middle East and stay...
June 4. (Radio Damascus): "U.S. policy now shows its true nature-a serpent sinking venom into innocent bodies . . . The spirits of Hitler and Mussolini have now entered the body of Secretary of State Dulles, who has now become a Nazi and a Fascist...
...experience ..." The adapter continues fair-mindedly: "Neither you nor Melville is to blame for this." In a separate aside to the teacher, the editor advises that "in the original, Moby Dick is shrouded in symbolism and mysticism; [it] became an outlet for the author, who poured into it vituperative venom conditioned by his personal life. Perhaps this shadowy symbolism lends to the greatness of the novel; however, the interpretation of this highly subjective part of Moby Dick is for literary critics and research scholars." The editor adds, sounding as if he thought he were tenderizing a volume from the Chinese...
...enter in the first place. As an ex-nun, I am thoroughly aware that anyone can make a mistake about his or her vocation in life. But why, in Heaven's name, do so many feel impelled to take up a poisoned pen and spit out their venom for the curious and unbelieving to scoff at and ridicule? I am sure that the God who gave Miss Baldwin the talent to write must be wide-eyed with pleasure at the results. He might also be tempted to suddenly appear in human form and ask for Author Baldwin...
...Mike Mansfield, Tennessee's Estes Kefauver, who had voted in Congress for a watered-down civil rights bill on which both North and South could agree. Chief architect and proud father of the compromise was Senate Majority Leader Lyndon Johnson of Texas, who last week drew the venom of Fair Dealing Columnist Tom Stokes: "It was his aim to get a bill weak enough to keep his Southern colleagues from staging one of those filibusters that show the most nauseating side of the Dixie element that controls the Democratic Party in Congress ... a fraud." Eisenhower Labor Secretary James...