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Except for one answer which suggested that Harvard by its historical, geographical, and economic position ought to cater more to Massachusetts natives, comments on the University admissions policy generally praised it as fair. One answer went so far as to label the Fair Education Practices Act a "vile insult to my own college." Several voiced doubts about the absolute absence of unfair discrimination in the Medical School, however...
...None unless he asks for it, in which case warn him that you are not infallible, and are a generation out of date." From U.N. Secretary General Trygve Lie: "Understand and support the United Nations in its work of preventing a third world war." From British Author Evelyn (Vile Bodies) Waugh: "Men: go to the university; read philosophy, history and the classics; ride horses. Women: go to Europe; learn the French and English languages; study architecture and modesty." From Author-Professor Henry Steele Commager (America in Perspective): "Keep an open mind and an experimental attitude . . . Don't be perfectionist...
...wine. It has brought refrigeration to sweltering one-ox towns without plumbing, and it has transformed men one generation removed from jungle barter into American salesmen with an irresistibly sincere approach. It has successfully defied the concerted attacks of all Communist mouthpieces which denounce it as a drink vile, imperialistic and poisonous. Its makers suspect that it is the biggest thing since America provided oil to light the lamps of China and celluloid fables to feed the dreams of the world...
Introducing his bill with some choice cattle-country oratory, Senator Johnson told the Senate that Actress Bergman was "my own favorite actress." But he added regretfully that she was "a powerful influence for evil." He referred to her as the "common mistress" of the "vile and unspeakable" Rossellini, "a common love thief." He lumped Actresses Hayworth and Bergman as "Hollywood's two current apostles of degradation...
...dedicated buildings, inaugurated cattle shows, addressed miners' rallies. Wherever he went he told his audiences that the atmosphere in Santiago was enough to choke him, that he had fled to the provinces to collect support against the vile politicos plotting his overthrow. Flying to Copiapo to visit a copper smelter, he said: "I must be a gypsy traveling from town to town! They are plotting against me." At a banquet of Talca farmers he cried: "I haven't come in a peaceful mood but in one of war. I will kill or be killed...