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...photographed in a southern Tibetan monastery. He had fled there to escape the Red Chinese hordes advancing on Lhasa, capital of his theocracy, to which he returned later that year. In the picture, the Dalai's Lord Chamberlain shows him a golden urn said to contain the ashes of Buddha's two chief disciples...
Local defense will always be important. But there is no local defense which alone will contain the mighty land power of the Communist world. Local defense must be reinforced by the further deterrent of massive retaliatory power. [The Administration had made a basic decision] to depend primarily upon a great capacity to retaliate instantly by means and at places of our choosing...
...daughter go to that mess after she begged me and swore that she'd try to be good. But when she came reeling in at 12:30 at night after escaping the fleshpots of Harvard, I just couldn't contain myself. Now, other mothers can let their daughters go off like that, but I have to worry about my daughter's position and her standing at Radcliffe. I'll just bet that other mothers feel the same. A Radcliffe Mother (Name Withheld by Request...
...forms contain ten "yes" or "no" questions; the first four are aimed at determining whether or not the General Education courses are succeeding in instilling "a sense of values" in the students...
Three Pieces for string quartet by John Bavicchi exemplify music in this state of transition. They contain measures of unrelated, ugly chords; plunks and scrapes that communicate little; and involved counterpoint that moves convulsively yet musically gets nowhere. Such passages appear to be willful "modernizing," a stubborn and out-dated refusal to compromises between method and expression. But Bavicchi does create some powerful climaxes. The second piece is touchingly lyrical, recalling the best of his songs. Here the treatment is still dissonant, but it is dissonance that grows logically from the melodic line, and our sensibilities have long ceased...