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...eagerly watched for, a visiting 67-man good-will cultural mission from Red China paid a call on the Rangoon Zoo. Anxious to impress the mission with the atmosphere of peaceful coexistence that pervades his particular domain, the zoo keeper thrust his arm into the cage of his gentlest lion. The lion promptly bit the intruding hand, and was driven off only by shots from the security police...
...mostly levelheaded and carry a ring of conviction. Wrote Sir Walter Scott: "I found Lord Byron in the highest degree courteous, and even kind . . . He was devoid of selfishness . . . generous, humane and noble-minded when passion did not blind him." Wrote Stendhal: "The profile of an angel, the gentlest of manners . . . the most amiable monster that I have ever seen . . . There was much petty vanity, a continual and puerile fear of appearing ridiculous . . . But his genius once awakened, his faults were shaken off as a garment that would have incommoded the flight of his imagination...
Marlon's friends insist that he is a thoroughly misunderstood young man. "If this is a slob," says Producer George Glass, "it should of happened to me." Director Kazan calls him "one of the gentlest-every possibly the gentlest-person I have ever known." A girl friend claims that until recently he was so sensitive that he hated to eat lettuce because it was so noisy. Wally Cox says he is "a creative philosopher, a very deep thinker. He's a real liberating force for his friends...
...blame does not rest entirely on the students. Why, one might ask, do language departments insist upon sending their gentlest and least experienced members to face the unfeeling recalcitrance of the requirement class? And why, in some cases, do these teachers freely admit to their classes that, after all, this is only a requirement course and will probably be very dull for both teacher and student? After such a beginning it certainly will...
...Eisenhower's vision of a super Point Four program. In Formosa, part of the press wistfully wished that Eisenhower had mentioned Formosa; but all agreed that the President's address was farsighted. And in Russia, oddly enough, this firmest of U.S. policy pronouncements got one of the gentlest reviews Moscow has accorded a Western cold-war policy statement. Moscow papers printed selected extracts with no immediate recrimination...