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...hiked from $6,000,000 to $20 million; but Pitt also had to drop its tuition for Pennsylvania students from $1,400 to $450 a year at a loss of $10 million. Pitt announced last week that it is going to give its trimester one more try, will abandon it if enrollment does not rise this spring...
Willing Dispensation. Since priests are ordained for life, Rome is reluctant to let them resume the lay state-and unhappy male clerics have little choice but to abandon their vocations in open defiance of the rules. By contrast, the church willingly dispenses nuns from their vows of poverty, chastity and obedience, and they can more easily leave the convent without leaving the church as well. Moreover, there has been a lessening of the family and social pressures that once tended to keep a girl in the nunnery, whether she was happy there...
...much as uninhibited private development. A plan should be published early enough to allow for discussion and dissent on details, as well as the central concept. If delay is too long, those who support renewal in principle but disagree with parts of a proposal may be forced to abandon their criticisms, or to go to the other extreme by opposing the plan in its entirety. Neither prospect is very pleasing...
...After analyzing at least 24 alliterative appellatives in your latest literary achievement [Dec. 23], I appeal abjectly for amnesty, asking that you abandon alliteration. Associate with alliterates anonymous...
...anatomists of melancholy (L'Avventura, La None, Eclipse), and in the film he risks a screeching change of creative direction. His earlier films inhabited languid interior landscapes and unfolded with the large, slow motions of the soul; his new movie makes the London scene with a Big Beat abandon that almost shakes the film off its sprockets. But the change of means does not signify a change of meaning. Antonioni presents for public inspection a slice of death: the same cold death of the heart his stories invariably describe. Yet in Blow-Up, Antonioni's anti-hero holds...