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Sir: I agree with all you say except that I think you're wrong about European attitudes. The cult of the young is inanely proliferate all over the Continent and Britain. There are TV programs in which the main idea is to focus the camera on young faces; people...
"I love an exam," bubbles Elma Fox, a University of Kentucky student. "I want to find out what I know." Helen Ellner, a classmate, confesses that "I get so engrossed in class that I never know what time it is." Coed Isabel Cottingham concurs: "I adore this give-and-take...
Mechanical Sin. The least that this spate of spies signifies, it would seem, is that ventures into venery, sadism and furious action have set an eyebrow-raising new standard for family entertainment. Kids adore the lethal, shiny toy collection. Dads happily ogle a prepotent heman, king of a computerized wonderland...
"Just once or twice in a century," said Clare Boothe Luce, "a man appears on the political scene who is brilliant, witty, courageous, honest-and articulate. What a wonderful thing it is to be on his side of the political barricades." The man she was talking about, William F. Buckley...
So it would be temptingly easy to dismiss Col. John H. Glenn, Jr., U.S.M.C.(ret.) and astronaut as little more than a huge boy scout made good. Tall, tanned, fit, graceful, handsome, just shy enough, pleasant, polite, friendly, modest, sincere--just think of any epithet related to "clean-cut," and...