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...session lasts from July 5 through August 26. More than ever before, summer offerings reflect the regular curriculum, in line with the theory that summer school should be more than a place to atone for past academic sins...
...then that Harper & Bros, in New York and Jonathan Cape in London picked up earlier versions of the manuscript from Streit's agents, read them and decided that the reeling world might like to reflect on one man's suggestions for salvation. In New York and London, Union Now appeared in the bookstores and Streit's idea was launched. A modest 13,-ooo books were sold in the U.S. It was all the encouragement that Streit needed. The idealist was reborn...
...Sherriff approached the Treasury, offered to write the Hollywood script for a nominal ?100, provided that the remaining ?9,900 went to the Society of Antiquaries for the excavation of some Roman ruins in Norfolk. Said Sherriff: "It is neither comforting nor does it make one proud to reflect that one is providing so many free sets of false teeth ... to the people of Britain ... I would gladly work for next to nothing if it would produce something for the nation I could feel I had a hand...
...find out the names of my informants so they can be kicked out of the State Department tomorrow." From the other side of the table Connecticut's Brien McMahon shouted back, white with rage: "When you start making charges of that sort about me, you had better reflect on it, and more than once...
...Vote. How little, muses Graves, does today's crude swearer reflect the high polish of his Chinese predecessor. On the other hand, he has also lost the Elizabethan faculty for fairly plastering his "opponent" with a custard-pie onslaught of laborious, invidious obscenities. Moslems still manage this very well, says Graves, but some of their English-speaking contemporaries have grown so dependent on the single epithet "bloody" (probable origin: "by 'r Lady") that they can hardly grasp the meaning of any word without its assistance. As instance, Author Graves quotes two Britons discussing whether any man should...