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Reception Room. The warm praise was not lightly given, nor was it a mere anniversary charity. Looking backward, the members of the China Club could count up many solid achievements for their hands-across-the-sea movement. Items...
Remembrance of Things Past is just what its title suggests-a backward search through sessions of sweet, silent thought into the memories of a lifetime. Like Joyce's Ulysses, it came into being when notions regarding the womb, the trauma, the unconscious were casting something like a dream-spell upon rational thinkers. Like Ulysses in this respect. Remembrance reads like a never-ending dream. But just as Ulysses manages also to portray the life and times of Joyce's Dublin, so Remembrance seems to many the greatest portrayal ever made of Proust's turn-of-the-century...
...Democrats are so horrified at the thought of Dulles bringing us face to face with the "brink of war," then it seems fair that the Republicans can publicly be even more upset about the way the Truman Administration let us fall over backward into...
ESTES: "We were promised a dynamic foreign policy, and I guess it has been dynamic. It has shot forward and then backward and up and down . . . The only trouble is that we don't seem to have gone forward. I wish Mr. Dulles would think more about bringing us to the brink of peace...
...forward-looking" special staff to shift as much emphasis to the peaceful atom as has so far been placed on the bomb. Both for good business and good international relations, the committee proposed that the U.S. set up a definite timetable for the delivery of nuclear power plants, which backward nations need far more than the U.S. Said the committee: "Atomic power may be the most tangible symbol of America's will to peace through the peaceful atom...