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...democracy. Long ago Generalissimo Chiang promised his country a republican constitution. One of the main reasons for Communist hostility to his regime has been his failure to implement that promise. But Chiang Kai-shek believes his people must hang on the vines a little longer before they will be ripe for democracy...
...Nebraska, where the primary election was expected to be a straw in the wind of this year's farm votes, ripe and eager was Thomas E. Dewey, silent and aloof was his rival. Senator Arthur Vandenberg. Twice "Buster" Dewey had invaded Nebraska, speechifying, conferring, shaking every hand within reach. Senator Vandenberg, though he was backed by most of the regular party leaders, had made it clear that any nomination must come to him "from the deliberative judgment of the American people." The best his campaign managers could think up was to bluster that young Mr. Dewey was pushing...
...Easter Monday, 1916, during World War I, a few thousand determined Irishmen decided that "Britain's extremity is Ireland's opportunity" and thought the time ripe for revolt. As a popular rising, the Easter Rebellion was a decided flop. In only four of the country's 32 counties did Irishmen take to arms. Only one small but aggressive group of people took part in it. The majority of Irishmen thought it was foolishly timed, were more angry than sympathetic about the commotion it caused...
...drama of my life? It is that I have put my genius into my life-I have put only my talent into my works." Like many another Wilde wisecrack-Biographer Winwar believes-that one had a solid core of astute truth, and contained a clue to Wilde's ripe mixture of estheticism and grossness, charm and repulsiveness, sincerity and exhibitionism. His genius consisted in living, in the most hostile environment possible-Victoria's industrial England-as though he were a pagan Greek, "noble and nude and antique." With his trial, imprisonment and shabby ending, Biographer Winwar...
Here is a fertile field--ripe for undergraduate exploration. Harvard needs a quarterly or semiannual review in which would be reprinted a selection of the best lectures given here. Such a publication would have as a potential public not only members of the University, but alumni and the non-Harvard readers as well. Of course, it would have to be cheaply printed--aiming at popular distribution rather than artistic magnificence or scholarly ponderosity...