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Monroe decided that the time had come for the U.S., on its own, to warn the Old World to let the New World alone. Adams thoroughly approved of the idea of a unilateral declaration. "It would be more candid as well as more dignified," he said, "to avow our principles explicitly to Russia and France than to come in as a cockboat in the wake of the British man-of-war." For All the World to Heed. Adams wanted to communicate the U.S. declaration to France and Russia through the normal channels of diplomacy, but Monroe decided to incorporate...
...worry that victory might produce 'a harvest of fear and distrust'? Your editorial suggests that all necessary steps be taken to prevent increased antiSemitism. One necessary step, it would appear to us, would be for America to denounce the intrusion of religious bigotry into public debate, and warn its readers against it.'' A more definitive answer came from the Anti-Defamation League, which keeps the pulse of anti-Semitism throughout the country. It reported that there had been no "overt incidents" since the decision that could be interpreted as the beginning of a wave of antiSemitism...
...unlikely to be as great an influence on the novel as the Symbolists were on poetry, but for more than five years they have been stirring excitement, adulation, outrage and despair. Admirers hail them as bold innovators who are breaking ground for the fiction of the future. Alarmists warn that if Gallic logic is pursued to its usual extreme, Neo-Realists' views and practices may lead the novel to wither away entirely...
Faced with "accomplished facts," said Sihanouk, he could only pay indemnities to the families and marry his son off to one Miss Tea Kim Yin, so "that no girl should henceforth become his mistress." Families, continued Sihanouk, must warn their daughters "against falling in love with His Royal Highness. As for me, in my capacity as father. I will not allow my son to continue to do such things, and I will continue to advise and scold him. If certain parents and daughters do not pay attention to my warning, they should not hold me responsible...
...Main Street's billiard academy allowed itself to become a gathering place for grifters and idlers, then was run out of town. The shark-infested pool halls of the big cities retreated into one-flight-up locations, shrinking into such shabby anonymity that parents no longer bothered to warn the young against them. And the era has passed when every self-respecting millionaire's mansion was big enough to include a billiard room, where even a lady might join the gentlemen for an after-dinner round. No longer does a super-champ like Willie Hoppe draw thousands...