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...subsidizing. Despite numerous demands that Harvard refuse to accept funds with a loyalty stigma, Pusey originally continued the University's participation in the NDEA program and stated that he "applauds the high motives which prompted Congress to pass the... Act." At the same time, he labeled the loyalty provision "odious...
...selecting good men for vital jobs. "It is a political process by which judges are selected," explains Whizzer White. "The President nominates them. The Senate Judiciary Committee holds hearings on them. The Senate confirms them. But this is a political process in the broad sense, not in any odious sense. This is our system of government...
...Archbishop had observed in advance: "Talking trivialities is in itself a portent of great significance. The pleasantries may be pleasantries about profundities." He seemed relieved that the interview had been private: "I am quite happy there were no pictures. All sorts of things might have been read into them-odious comparisons made...
Censorship in all forms is naturally an odious thing, but in this case the presumptuousness of an American President who wants to keep his life his own is absolutely inexcusable...
...France and the U.S. The most prized national characteristic, it was argued, is the universal belief among Britons that they possess a superb sense of humor. British writers, in fact, use humor to put across "a social message which might otherwise seem either boring or too plainly parsonical." Comparisons, odious though they may be, were inevitable. Where "an American novelist wishing to criticize advertising, does so headon, with moralistic violence," says the Times, a Briton, e.g. Aldous Huxley in Antic Hay, takes a gentler and-inferentially-more engaging approach. Writers such as Kingsley (Lucky Jim) Amis similarly express...