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Cobden put the argument at its sunniest: "If the minority are discontented with the existing state of things, let them set to work and exert themselves until they become the majority." Fine, unless a minority is of a different race, religion or culture, and has no hope of be coming a majority. Then there must either be continual friction, as in Northern Ireland or Cyprus, or else a guarantee of protected minority rights that a majority cannot overturn. John C. Calhoun believed the South to be such a permanent minority in need of protection. So he argued for a "concurrent...
...Park hotel? Certainly not the fact that Jersey would charge him very little in the way of taxes, for, as an American abroad, Hughes could skip taxes only on the first $20,000 of his U.S.-earned income. The weather? Jersey is one of the sunniest places in the British Isles. Ibiza, move over...
...front of the giant reflector. Only half of the mirrors have been aligned thus far, although the structure has been finished for more than a year. Reason: the work is so delicate that technicians can usually adjust no more than a few dozen even on the sunniest of days...
...time, women, love, Adam and Eve and, of course, joy. Called a "musical come-together," Joy as a stage show has no more plot than a bagful of rainbows. But on a new RCA album, relieved of the need for action and reduced to pure sound, Joy becomes the sunniest original-cast LP of the year, an irresistible fantasia of blues, bossa nova, jazz and mild rock that tumbles beautifully out of living-room loudspeakers...
Last Saturday afternoon--one of this spring's sunniest and warmest--we made an abortive attempt to gain access to the balcony. On emerging from the elevator we found ourselves restricted to a plush receiving-room, walled on the view side with thick amber glass. On inquiring, we descovered that students can see the balcony only by joining the Crimson Key tours that are allowed to take people on Sunday afternoons. (It seems ironic that prospective freshmen are enticed to come to Harvard by a view that they'll never see as Harvardmen...