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...would have set Northern and Southern Democrats at each other's throats at the very outset of the 1955 session. The man who killed the plan was Minnesota's Senator Hubert Humphrey, once the noisiest and most reckless of the South-baiters. Humphrey urged his friends to "abandon the devil theory of politics," i.e., to recognize their Southern colleagues as reasonable, constructive men rather than as fiends from the pit. Humphrey prevailed, and after that it was easy going for the Democrats. Next day Georgia's Senator Walter George, quoting Alexander Hamilton (a factionalist if ever there...
...unable to wage her war of conquest in China during the early thirties and would not have been able to ally herself with Germany. It is even conceivable that China would not have fallen under Communist domination if Britain and the United States had not chosen in Washington to abandon their strategic ascendancy in the Pacific...
Harvard should not abandon the junior year program merely because of Sweet briar's ineffectiveness. Instead, it should set up a program of its own--not a vast system of advisers and special libraries, but a small-scale plan enabling highly qualified students to study abroad on their own. Detailed Harvard examinations on return would provide more of a check than Sweet briar's regulations, which treat all juniors as juveniles...
...contemporaries, the 18th century was the Age of Elegance, one of those brief moments in history when man can abandon himself to the art of living. Warmed by the afterglow of France's great Sun King, Louis XIV, the Versailles court lived a lavish life. Its taste and style were enviously mimicked in the other courts of Europe and in the newly decorated salons of Paris' prosperous bourgeoisie. The age's artists par excellence were Francois Boucher and his brilliant pupil, Jean Honore Fragonard...
...wears on. Even such a popular set piece as the famed Kabuki Lion Dance gets a startling new tail twist: it starts off traditionally with a dancer in a furry, tasseled leonine head, but in the end scores of Takarazuka girls, dressed as butterflies in tight leotards and wings, abandon their fluttering and go into a high-kicking routine to rival the Rockettes...