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...true," he said, "that the request for an oath is per se a violation of academic freedom. To 98 per cent of the faculty a statement disavowing membership in the Communist Party is like a statement against sin, and 100 per cent have cheerfully taken an oath to support the democratic Constitutions of both the nation and state. It is the height of absurdity to compare [as some of the objectors have done] an oath forswearing membership in a conspiratorial antidemocratic organization with an oath supporting the dictatorship of Hitler or Mussolini . . . Some hysteria-mongers to the contrary notwithstanding, this...
True, the Levitt organization is "the General Motors of the housing industry" [TIME, July 3], but we who bought from his Cadillac line instead of his Chevrolet line are sometimes irked by the public impression . . . that all Levitt houses are per se Levittown houses...
LUCIEN LEUWEN (BOOK ONE: THE GREEN HUNTSMAN) (388 pp.) - Henri Beyle [Stendhal]-Translated by Louise Varése-New Directions...
...Molines: Roland G. Harrison, a '15; 601 Second Ave. SE, Des Moines...
...vast expanse of his fatherland, no more ardent or versatile Peronista ever breathed than Oscar Ivanisse-vich, 45, onetime Argentine Ambassador to the U.S. As a surgeon he had removed the appendixes of both President and Señora Perón. As a poet he had composed the official party march, Peronista Boys. As Minister of Education, he distributed to his schoolchildren a saccharine pamphlet on Evita, "The Good Fairy of Argentina." Every morning on entering his office he bowed low to his patrons' pictures on the wall...