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Dulles pronounced the plan "both useful and ingenious." As one U.S. delegate put it, the Macmillan proposal incorporated the U.S. concept that the foreign ministers should "serve as John the Baptists-prepare the way for the Great Coming," and also ensured that they will do the actual negotiating on matters of substance. Thirty-six hours later, approval came from President Eisenhower in Washington...
...Wolfe's work is profoundly influenced by his youth in Asheville. Home represented the most important link to a childhood in which he had most often transcended the limitations of his being. In his concept of home, Wolfe's mother and father have a dominant role. His mother, despite her avarice, seemed to signify to Wolfe the durability and fertility of the earth itself, while his father--the W. O. Gant of Look Homeward, Angel, is the "Far Wanderer," the forever unsatisfied, Odysseus-like figure. Between these two forces, Wolfe saw himself poised, and his continual efforts to formularize these...
...Belgians plan to move slowly-and progress steadily. "We adapt and adjust continually to the Congo's circumstances," says Governor Pétillon. "In the cities perhaps we shall move towards the ordinary concept of democracy, for black and white alike, but in the countryside, we may have to be content for a long time with a modified form of tribalism...
...provide them with enough money for manual service during vacations, as well as village surveys and seminars during the school year. This is hardly charity; it is not even "helping others to help themselves," in the language of Point Four; it is, rather, a new and more acceptable concept--helping others to help others...
Today the Red squeeze is on. One prominent American-trained psychologist, Lu Chih-wei, was liquidated when he refused to sign an anti-American testimonial; others have been pressured into phony confessions and self-ridicule. What hurts most is the enforcement of Communism's concept of science as a political and social weapon rather than a "bourgeois" search for truth. Meteorologists were ordered to "learn from Chairman Mao's statement on party doctrine." At a conference of mathematicians, one topic was "How to Realize Patriotism Through Education in Mathematics." At another meeting, the president of the Society...