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Here I would like the reader to compare the Arab and Israeli positions with regard to U.Sjnterests. I'd say 99% of U.S. interests in the Middle East are in Arab countries. We are friends; and we want to continue to be the friends of the United States. We safeguard her interests, and all we ask is that the United States should not support Israeli expansionism and aggression. We do not call on the United States to throw Israel into the sea or even to break her special relations with the State of Israel. Let America give Israel whatever...
...does, the reader thinks, his eyes opened by Morgan's perception of Americans as "the true existentialists ... Anxiety is the price that must be paid for boundless opportunity, including the opportunity to cheat the system, and not everyone can handle it." But passion does not improve the reasoning process, and when the author supports his arguments with windy civics lectures and careless unravelings from U.S. history, he can be more provocative than illuminating. Cases in point include a lame paragraph that seeks to prove "a high incidence of breakdown among men and women in public life" by linking...
Still, the book is so amiable and loose-jointed, perhaps like the U.S. itself, that the reader is happy to wade through balderdash to the next bit of good storytelling or good sense. Meanwhile, what about this name change? Why Morgan? Why not Carnegie or Rockefeller? Why not Svensen or Von Humboldt or Verrazanno or Sun Yatsen? Well, Morgan explains, he threw away his first name, Sanche-a contraction of St. Charles -and scrambled the letters of De Gramont. Among the anagrams that resulted were Dr. Montage, R.D. Megaton and Ted Morgan. Morgan, he felt, was someone you would lend...
...anyone else's? Yes. Is name changing an American quirk? Absolutely, says this SuperAmerican. Look at Natasha Gurdin (Natalie Wood); Marcus Rothkowitz (Mark Rothko); Michael Igor Peschkowsky (Mike Nichols). If Columbus had hung around, he might have called himself Collins. By the end of the volume does the reader feel a giddy temptation to throw away his own first name and mess around with the letters of the rest? As De Gramont-Morgan proves, that requires a lot of thought. - S. Wok (formerly John Skow...
...avid reader of The Crimson, I wish to express my dissatisfaction over the lack of sports coverage for subvarsity and club sports. I think The Crimson's sports coverage is generally satisfactory except for this one omission. It may well be a fault of the Athletic Department in not informing people of subvarsity sports events, but I think some effort should be made to give the hardworking participants of subvarsity, club, and intramural athletics more print. I realize that there is limited space in the daily paper for complete sports coverage of this kind, but even if an occasional article...