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Unfortunately, there are far too few Volpes and Brookes and Murphys and Fongs in the Republican ranks, and our party gives the appearance of being an organization of white Anglo-Saxon Protestants. America is a nation of racial, religious and ethnic minorities. Overall, even the white Anglo-Saxon Protestants are a minority. I admit, regretfully, that when you attend any meeting of Republicans on the national scale, the faces you see and the names you hear are rarely Negro, Italian-American, Polish-American, Irish-American, or Jewish, or any of the other groups that combine to make up our country...
...government had gone to Michigan and New York. Why? Well, first, that's where big business is. And second, the Cabinet, while long on brains, was somewhat short on politics. As a result, the Eisenhower Administration turned out, in the eyes of the public, to be almost exclusively Anglo-Saxon and Protestant, even though Eisenhower himself remained the idol of all elements in the country...
...such is the verse form Author Toynbee has invented "after many experiments" to carry the narrative of his eighth novel, ostensibly the reminiscences of an old Anglo-Norwegian attempting in the year 1999 to recapture and finally comprehend the essence of a brother who died in 1936. Lest the reader fail to appreciate Toynbee's poetic virtuosity, Toynbee provides a pretentious introductory gloss that is almost a recipe. Take "first a very long and discursive line of anything between 25 and 35 syllables (but never either more or less), followed by two lines of five stressed syllables each...
...raid shelters. Last week Lon don was calling again, this time to tell Murrow, 56, that Britons will know him as Sir Edward from now on. Queen Elizabeth made him an honorary knight commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, in recognition of his furtherance of Anglo-American understanding. Ed himself was in New York Hospital for another checkup following removal of a cancerous left lung 14 months...
Even blunter was defeated Illinois Gubernatorial Candidate Charles Percy, who called for "a progressive party in the tradition of Lincoln" and said: "We have got to get this party away from being an Anglo-Saxon Protestant white party." Echoed House Minority Leader Gerald Ford of Michigan: "Unfortunately, we have not been able to sell the people on the fact that our solutions are better for the people as a whole and in conformity with the framework of America's basic principles...