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Categorical Imperative. Vis-à-vis Japan, there were variations of misunderstanding. The Japanese were "polite, industrious little people" until Pearl Harbor, brutal savages until V-J day, have been enthusiasts for democracy since. Warns Maurer: beneath surface "democratization" lurk the fixed feudal habits of centuries. A good Quaker by faith, and no Cassandra, Herrymon Maurer believes the West can retrieve its errors if it recognizes that "other persons . . . must be treated as ends in themselves, not as means to some other...
...Nieman Fellows reeled for a while this year as professor after professor, throw at them: "vis-a-vis this problem," and "vis-a-vis" that one. The phrase is taboo in every city room in the country--the peasants might not understand it. But as the year went on, and editors and publishers made evening talks to the group, it seems that the editors themselves are promoting this sort of thing. A quiet poll shows that Frank J. Starzel, general manager of The Associated Press, said vis-a-vis at 8:23 p.m., Carroll Binder, of the Minneapolis Tribune...
...vis-a-vis, it's vis-a-vis...
Tarrant is one of those men whose ambition jells before his character sets. Early in life he decides that middle-class gentility and slightly frayed cuffs are not enough for him. There is nothing melodramatic or Freudian about Tarrant vis-à-vis parents. His father is a good surveyor; his mother, an enlightened type, believes in not spanking children and in the BBC's Third Program. Tarrant vows that he would "rather starve than live as they had lived...
Sportswriter Bill Fay yesterday published Collier's 61st A;-American football team. In the backfield are: Vite Parilli, Kentucky, Vis Janowicz, Ohio State, Kyle Rote, S.M.U. and Leon Heath, Oklahoma. The line consists of: Bill McColl, Stanford, Dan Foldberg, Army, Holland Donan, Princeto, Jim Weatherall, Oklahoma, Ted Daffer, Tenuessee, Bud McFadin, Texas, and 'Bob McCullough, Obio State...