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Europe, he says, has always been distinguished by its "diversity in homogeneity." "It is sheer madness to stake all Europe on one card, on a single type of man, on one identical 'situation.' Europe's secret talent up to the present day has been to avoid this, and it is the consciousness of this secret that has shaped the speech ... of the perpetual liberalism of Europe." In passing, Ortega y Gasset contributes to a minor but diverting branch of literature-anecdotes about inspired, rhetorical, self-important Novelist Victor Hugo. At his jubilee, Hugo was receiving the foreign...
...players would probably frighten the enemy to a quick and decisive retreat, unless the soldiers themselves would first throw up their guns in anguish to shut their ears. Having seen some of the tanks in action recently in camp maneuvers, we can understand Mr. Stokowski's determination to avoid the use of clarinets. On some of those dips, certainly many of the clarinets would be swallowed forever...
...ordinary criminals, differs also from obvious psychotics or lunatics. The mark of his class is an apparently aimless search for disaster, a sort of continual social and spiritual suicide. These semi-suicides are often, but not always, heavy drinkers. But whereas the neurotic drinker -the classic alcoholic-drinks to avoid reality, to escape feelings of failure, humiliation or inferiority, the disaster-seeking psychopath drinks simply to get himself in trouble...
...this can be achieved only by democratic selection of committeemen. In the short run the committee, faced with the budget cut question, may achieve somewhat broader representation by enlisting the aid of PBK and the HSU's Committee to Advance Harvard Education; in doing so it will also avoid duplication of effort and working at cross purposes...
...drives will be pointedly omitted. This time no church bells will toll as a "dirge for slackers"; no "four-minute men" will yell at pedestrians through megaphones; no persistent Boy Scouts will push doorbells; no grisly posters will scare moppets. This time the Treasury will avoid high-pressure salesmanship, lure savings by a simple but fast-moving patriotic appeal. Some details...