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Carpenters & Tailors. From the earth's four corners the cardinals came, each with his two "conclavists"-usually a fellow cleric and a layman-who are permitted to accompany cardinals into the conclave enclosure as aides. Only two cardinals are expected to be absent when the conclave begins this week. Both Aloysius Cardinal Stepinac, Primate of Yugoslavia, and Joseph Cardinal Mindszenty, Primate of Hungary, will stay away from Rome for the same good reason: Stepinac is under house arrest, Mindszenty a refugee in the U.S. legation in Budapest. And even if they could get to Rome, their governments would deny...
Conspicuously absent from the above list is the Socialist Club, formed by Reed's friend Walter Lippman. Several of Reed's biographers, in tracing his political development, have given him undeserved credit for helping organize the club. The Socialist Club itself was more interested in promoting discussion than political activity...
Last night's "coup" was staged when study group president Dennis L. White '60 arranged to have a dozen new members admitted to full voting status. After declaring all absent study group members inactive, the new majority passed a resolution declaring that "on the basis of (Professor Henry A.) Kissinger's (Oct. 2) speech we of the Committee to Study Disarmament are resolved that disarmament should be condemned as an impractical idealistic impossibility...
...making an increased Moslem representation in it of less importance). Parliament is permitted to meet only twice a year and then for only three months at a time. Parliament can pass laws, but only in certain circumscribed areas. No Deputy's vote may be counted if he is absent, and if a Deputy accepts either a Cabinet post or a government position, he must withdraw from Parliament...
Conrad has a pronounced socio-political ideology. It is never absent from the novels, but it is stronger in these three than elsewhere. Guerard, despite "my sympathy with the political vision" of Nostromo seems less interested in ideology than in the other components of novels. This is a great pity much of Conrad's ideology, for that brand of illiberalism is not going to find many commentators sympathetic enough to do it justice...