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...enacted many meritorious measures, but it has failed to come to grips with many others." Whenever the 84th got too blatantly political, it was slapped ba-k. The Presi dent made his veto stick on the Southern-Democratic-sponsored natural gas bill, al though he was "in accord with its basic objectives," because he got a strong whiff of "arrogant" lobbying (TIME...
TIME states that the American intellectual's "perennial problem has been to reconcile himself to a society that has always refused to accord him-or anyone else-the special regard given his European counterpart." I submit that American society does give other types much the same respectful interest which Europe saves for its intellectuals. I refer, of course, to the movie star, the baseball or football hero, the jazz-band conductor, the very successful businessman or industrialist...
...CRIMSON found itself somewhat involved this year in the usual collegiate argle-bargle: urging longer hours for female guests (in accord with the ideal of "gracious living"), advocating an additional mid-year vacation and drinking for 18-year olds, battling the Harvard Athletic Association for alcohol in the stands, tickets, and general principles. Yet in the midst of the frivolity the CRIME somehow found time for serious consideration of a few major issues...
...McCarthy flurry only tended to obscure one central fact. Far from repeating the attitudes of the '205, the American intellectual stayed at home and even found himself feeling at home. His perennial problem has been to reconcile himself to a society that has always refused to accord him-or anyone else-the special regard given his European counterpart. "This," says Chairman Leslie Fiedler of Montana State University's English department, "is a period of recapitulation, a summing up. The intellectual is taking stock of himself...
...last audience in America to which I would make a serious address would be a reunion of college graduates. In such reunions men honoring ancient shrines of learning with one accord breathe one prayer: 'Make me a sophomore just for tonight.' And few prayers are more unfailingly answered...