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...While therapy and interviews were uncovering significant material, he underwent no overnight transformation. But firm controls at the center helped him improve his own self-control, and the counselors' patently impartial concern for his welfare brought him slowly to understand his problem and its causes. He began to exert himself, gruffly ordering younger children to obey the center staff...
...home for several holidays. Carefully coached by his counselors at Ryther, he rebuffed his mother when she tried to resume their wrestling. When she began to reject him in his new role, he faced a real, personal crisis: whether to please her and thus win back her love, or exert his latent masculinity...
...last analysis, however, the insistence on the right of free alliance is wise because it is the policy of the Adenauer government. It is important to remember that Germany is now a sovereign nation which can make its own deals. While the Western nations continue to exert strong political, diplomatic and economic pressures on Germany, in the long run it can maintain an alliance with Germany only by paying strict attention to the policy if its government. At the moment, Adenauer is uncompromisingly opposed to neutralization...
...this doubt is unreasonable and uncharitable, we should have expected China to exert every possible influence upon Russia-I am persuaded that her influence in that quarter is by no means negligible-and we should have expected this to be done openly and in the eyes of the world. It has not been done openly. It has not been done...
Gunter feels Berlin students and teachers, since their university is practically a living protest against Communism, tend to form the most democratic academic body in West Germany. Fraternities and dueling societies, long the stronghold of nationalistic, anti-semitic, and aristocratic traditions, exert almost no influence on the Berlin campus. Of the few which exist despite non-recognition by the University, a number have abandoned all objectionable traits. Anti-Americanism, according to Gunter, is also sparse, since Berliners in general have felt particular gratitude toward the U.S. ever since the 1948 airlift. The University in particular is thankful for continued...