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...nothing to bring his boys "up" for Columbia. They came up by themselves, and they will do the same thing for Yale and Army. In the meantime, they will be psychologically "down" for games like Dartmouth. Princeton, Brown, Holy Cross. And Cornell, How low they sink in comparison to Cornell's rise (it is fresh from a win over tough Navy) will decide the game. For the Crimson is able to win: if it doesn't, morale will be the cause...
...familiar difference, far less significant than the wholly unforeseen measure of understanding and agreement, greater than in any comparable Christian assemblage ever held. My own impression is that this was the most newsworthy fact about Amsterdam-such differences and stresses as appeared were inconsequential in comparison with what had been expected, and were overshadowed by the truly remarkable sweep of unity disclosed and even more by the fullness of mutual comprehension and appreciation...
...Arabs, as Ben-Gurion noted, are 40 to one Israeli. But the Jewish superiority over the Arabs is not just a figment of Israeli imagination; it is a fact. Israel has probably the highest percentage of skilled labor and executive experience of any people in the world; by comparison, the Arabs are near the bottom of the scale...
...philosophy, especially its elements of unconditional pacifism, but few are likely to deny that The Plague is one of the few genuinely important works of art to come out of Europe since the war's end. It makes most recent American war novels seem tinny and thin by comparison...
This Life) will suffer no disgrace by comparison with Chekhov or Stendhal for a hurting sense of human relationships...