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...Fellows. Famous during this period for his fiery reviews in such liberal intellectual journals as The Nation and The New Republic, he had nevertheless restricted his scholarly endeavors, for the most part, to respectably antique subjects. When James Joyce published his last and longest book, however, Levin could not resist penning a review called "On First Looking Into Finnegans Wake." He was one of the first critics courageous enough to probe the obscurities of Joyce's "monomyth" and Joyce himself praised the review highly for its critical acumen...
Since it joined the U.N., South Africa has persistently invoked this Charter article to resist U.N. inquiries into the question of racial discrimination in the South African Union. Long before its present intolerant leadership got control of the country, Field Marshal Jan Smuts contended in 1946 that "the question of the U.N.'s right to intervene in the domestic affairs of a member state is vital to the whole concept...
...which would fiercely resist any U.N. foray into race relations in the South, abstained in last week's vote. Though some advisers acknowledge South Africa's legal case, the U.S. hesitates to side with South Africa even when it is technically right. Officially, the U.S. takes the stand that the Arab-Asian motion is not "the best way to achieve constructive results," on the ground that U.N. discussion of South Africa's restrictive policies would only harden white South Africa's support of apartheid...
...Cares?" All too often she found that her students had no desire to learn. Whatever wit they had, they directed mostly to thinking up excuses for being late ("I was dreamin' about ya, Mrs. Beal, an I didn' wanna wake up"), and finding ways to resist vocabulary drill ("So who cares? I say a woid like dat an all my frens laugh at me. Nobody know what dat woid means"). Almost every class had its sullen and defiant pupils who would yawn, lounge, drum, stamp, and wander about at will. Whether they worked or not, they knew that...
...Large companies have found their fears about practicing desegregation in the South unjustified. Example: Westinghouse has put Negroes and whites to work on the same semiskilled jobs in South Carolina without incident. Said Westinghouse President Gwilym A. Price: "We found out that people fear and resist change, but experience overcomes the fear of the unknown...