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...fall's Senate campaign; and Seymour Harris has taken to playing Horatius at the bridge, criticizing even the mildest of President Kennedy's critics. Only David Riesman--who continues questioning our assumptions about American society (though more and more quietly)--and Barrington Moore, Jr.--who shrilly calls down the wrath of God upon bourgeois society upon the slightest provocation--could be called radicals. Harvard's physical scientists have been mute: increasingly dependent on government money for their research, their loyalties are perhaps bought along with their talents. Hence, excepting the abortive campaign for Senator of H. Stuart Hughes last fall...
Confusing Welter. The decision to back down came from the U.S. State Department, to which the worried CAB had turned for guidance. Both quickly drew the wrath of Washington Democrat Warren G. Magnuson and his Senate Commerce Committee, which summoned CAB Chairman Alan Boyd to account for the retreat. Boyd explained that though the CAB lacked the power to set international air fares, he had hoped to block the fare rise by winning away enough foreign lines to isolate the British. "In retrospect," he admitted, "you could say we were not smart...
...restorative, Tranquilax ("A sedative! A stimulant! A laxative!"). Everyone is outraged by the, new vicar's unfashionably golden-rule outlook except a profane and prolific family of Smiths. When the Tranquilax interests toss the Smiths out of the meadow where they have been squatting in grapes-of-wrath raunchiness. Sellers invites them to come live in the vicarage-goat and all. Soon he is up to his bicycle clips in holy hot water...
...average U.S. professor is no Socrates. In the face of possible wrath or ridicule, he tends to retreat to "safe" positions. By such faculty flinching, everyone is cheated. Who knows what the world loses, wrote John Stuart Mill, in "the multitude of promising intellects combined with timid characters, who dare not follow out any bold, vigorous, independent train of thought lest it should land them in something which would admit of being considered irreligious or immoral"-or subversive or even Philistine...
...Then was the Wrath of the sons of Harvard kindled within them and they gathered themselves together and went to the House of Edward the Chief Ruler, and said, we will not confess, and if our Rulers shall punish Asa we will depart everyone to his own Home and leave the Rulers to the Meditation out of their own hearts...