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Participation by members of the Class of 1950 in administering an election concerning their own class was attacked by the Hearing Committee. "Strict impartiality was thus somewhat jeopardized," the report noted...
Certainly men such as Clement Attlee are not avid for arbitrary power. But whatever they do or do not seek, it is a fact that Socialism destroys some of the bases of personal independence. Britain's strict labor control laws have been rarely invoked in the last five years. So far, only 657 applications for permission to change jobs have been actually refused, but the laws remain on the books and there is no doubt that thousands of workers are hesitant to change their jobs because of them. Some Laborites, e.g., Nye Bevan, regularly use the vocabulary of class...
...fall came and the trouble started. The town discovered that the Levisons were not sending seven-year-old Carolyn to school. Instead, Mrs. Levison was teaching her at home. The Levisons explained that they were Seventh-Day Adventists and that as far as they could see, their religion was strict on the matter. Said Mrs. Levison, quoting an Adventist text: "Parents are the best teachers of their children until they are eight to ten. Small children should be left free as lambs to run out of doors." As a former college student, Mrs. Levison thought she was fully qualified...
Cinemactor Clifton ("Mr. Belvedere") Webb, 56, a confirmed bachelor, reflected gloomily on his trials & tribulations during the shooting of Cheaper by the Dozen, in which he plays the father of twelve children: "I was a strict disciplinarian. I have a glare that makes children most obedient. I may not be a family man, but I am an actor. I hope the mothers of America will soon show me some mercy. Ever since I dumped the bowl of oatmeal on Roddy McCaskill in Sitting Pretty, I have been called on for assistance in rearing the bubble-gum youth of this nation...
Some great writers, says Dr. Brain, were insane in the strict sense "that they would today have been regarded as certifiable." Others, although not certifiable, were manic-depressives, obsessionals, alcoholics or drug addicts. Among mentally sick writers of all nations he includes Baudelaire, Dostoevsky, Flaubert, Goethe, Poe, Rousseau and Strindberg. Some Brain case histories and diagnoses of fellow Englishmen...