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...part in politics." In his Reflections of a Non-Political Man, written in 1918, Thomas Mann proclaimed that he was unpolitical and proud of it. He changed his mind later. The pit of politics was left to ambitious drones or dregs. In the end it was a couple of wellborn smart-alecks, General Kurt von Schleicher and ex-Lieut. Colonel Franz von Papen, both conservatives, both of good regiments, who delivered Weimar over to the Nazis. They were also both favorites of the republic's beloved 85-year-old President Paul von Hindenburg (who at least had the excuse...
Arthur B. Weissman, of Elizabeth, N. J. and Leverett House (English): Olin G. Wellborn, of Alvin, Tex., and Quincy House (English); Mahatma Kane Jeeves, of Lompoc, Minn., and Dunster House (Physics of the Fine Arts); Jeffrey W. Willbrand, of St. Charles. Mo., and Quincy House (History and Science); Marcus W. Wright, of Charlotte, N. C., and Quincy House (Mathematics): Wording Erik White, of Lawrence, Kans., and Lowell House (Biology); Robert L. Yarrish, of Cherry Hill, N. J. and Leverett House (Language and Literature); Aron Zysow, of Brookline and Dudley Houre (Classics...
Another thing Evangeline Adams did for U.S. astrology was to convince a young, wellborn Philadelphian named Carroll Righter that he ought to be an astrologer. As a friend of his family, she met him first at 14, found out his birth time ("I'm a gregarious Aquarius," he archly rhymes), and informed him repeatedly that his chart was perfect for interpreting the stars?"just like mine...
Whether they are able to exert a continuing influence on policy under President Nixon may prove to be a matter of some importance to the future of this country. Their weak, even marginal, position with the GOP, their political rootlessness within the party of the rich and the wellborn, suggests that the GOP liberals may not have much effect on the crucial decisions to be made on Vietnam, the military-industrial complex, and the problems of the cities. Ultimately, the Ripon people and the Republican liberals whom they represent may encounter once again the fundamental problem facing men who enter...
Died. Sir "Evelyn Wrench, 84, a wellborn journalist from Northern Ireland and longtime chairman of The Spectator, who in 1918, in order "to draw together in the bond of comradeship the English-speaking people of the world," founded the English-Speaking Union of the Commonwealth, to facilitate cultural exchanges, give scholarships, hold conferences, in 1920 founded a U.S. counterpart, saw the groups grow to more than 100,000 members; of a heart attack; in Marlow, England...