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...When I got tickets to this game," the man next to me explained, "I didn't know who I'd root for, with two communists playing each other, you know...
...self-control, selfdiscipline, stoicism, decorum, even inhibition and a little puritanism. It may be time for a touch of reticence. Coercion cannot produce such attitudes, but the mood of the time may. Americans may find themselves agreeing in some paraphrase of Elihu Root when he walked through a squalid Siberian village as Woodrow Wilson's emissary in the first Soviet revolutionary dawn. "I'm a firm his in democracy," he said, as he skeptically eyed his surroundings. "But I do not like filth...
...diplomas without any significant intellectual growth. Well-intentioned, but insufficient. Henry Rosovsky has battled hard for the Core, and is justly proud of guiding it through a touchy Faculty, eager to protect its educational preserves. But he has spent a great deal of his political capital without addressing the root of the problem--he has brought the great Harvard minds before undergraduates, but failed to insure that they will teach any better. Of course, teaching cannot be legislated, and new courses can. It will take far more than a new curriculum to convince recalcitrant faculty members that undergraduates are worthy...
...John Le Carre's series that began with The Spy Who Came in From the Cold. However convoluted his adventures, Smiley provides an anchor for every Le Carre story because he is a real person--a troubled, depressed, aging spy. Forsyth deals in Supermen, plastic men whom we will root for but never really care about as human beings. He came closest in Jackal, with his portrayal of the man who tried to assassinate Charles De Gaulle; he failed outright in his two later novels, The Odessa File, in which Superman infiltrated a society of Nazi war criminals...
...Rhodesia, meanwhile, ceasefire arrangements were successfully taking root. Under the overall authority of Lord Soames, the British-appointed Governor, the 1,200 Commonwealth observers completed their deployment to monitoring posts throughout the country. After the cease-fire officially took effect at midnight last Friday, Rhodesian security forces began to retreat to their 42 military bases. Simultaneously, the guerrillas are supposed to come out of the bush and -under Commonwealth escort-complete their movement to 16 camps by the Jan. 4 assembly deadline. There, alongside Commonwealth troops, they will be housed until the establishment of an independent Zimbabwe government after...