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...would Gandhi have reacted to the Korean situation? He would certainly not have behaved as Nehru has. For Gandhi never turned away from evil or denied its existence. He fought evil in his own way, which was essentially to suffer rather than to inflict suffering, to die by the sword rather than to kill with the sword. Gandhi did not believe in unresisting meekness but in non-violent resistance ("A rabbit that runs away from the bull terrier is not particularly nonviolent...
...seems that the sword of righteousness so handily wielded by Mr. Truman at the outset of the Korean conflict has become an umbrella...
...young U.S. sportsman (Robert Stack) determines, almost as a lark, to learn how to handle the matador's fighting cape and sword. He persuades Mexico's leading bullfighter (Gilbert Roland) to teach him, falls in love with a high-born local girl (Joy Page) and then with the bulls. When Matador Roland dies in the ring while saving Stack's life, Stack, still an amateur, feels he must vindicate his honor and courage in the face of a hostile crowd and a raging bull...
...traditional red "sword line," set into the rug before the front benches to make sure that government and opposition are two full sword lengths apart, may once have had historical justification. But I got the feeling that today's honorable members really need armor, not in front but in back, to protect themselves from the quills of their fellow party members...
...painful. While he was learning to eat fire, his mouth and face were a mass of blisters, but no one even suggested that he should see a doctor. During the worst of it, he kept his mouth filled with cracked ice. Before long he took on sword swallowing and its modern refinements: his big moment came when he swallowed a lighted neon tube. Still later, he took on mind reading. One routine that proved too much for him was the Human Pincushion act (sticking pins through his flesh). He did manage to sew buttons on his wrists and fasten...