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...believed in the old virtues. Individualism, tolerance, tradition, the Human Spirit, an aristocracy of the good, the Christian ethic with the Christianity left out. If history is to go anywhere, it must leave its Forsters behind. But now Maurice has been published, and Edward Morgan Forster deserves a backward glance...
...Looking backward two and a half years, the seizure of University Hall seems an innocent act, and Dick a mirror of that innocence. It seems little more than a scribble of outrage on a wall that separated us from the thousand outrages of the war and a University administration that was hurrying to stay even step with the thundering war machine. We believed that we had positively torn that wall down, but more likely, the tremor was only within us--a shudder at the sudden demystification of University liberalism. For that momentary alteration of power relations within the University...
...alliance with China would also have serious drawbacks. The Chinese have never rid themselves of what Asian critics call their "Middle Kingdom" complex, an attitude that dates back 3,000 years to the days when China considered itself the ideal country, halfway between heaven and earth. Others were backward barbarians, especially the Japanese, whose culture is heavily indebted to China. This prejudice was certainly strengthened by the rape of Nanking and other Japanese wartime atrocities, which the Chinese still recall regularly in propaganda plays...
...remain together, vote as a bloc, and stay out of the politico stuff, we will have both political parties bending over backward to get our vote...
...fight to control inflation [Aug. 16], you have it all backward! Teacher organizations and other public-servant groups have only begun to strike and bargain effectively within the past decade. Industrial labor unions have been powerful for much longer. So when workers in private industry win substantial raises, civil servants "quite naturally feel an urge to match them." Not vice versa...