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...Last week, before an Army court-martial at Redstone Arsenal, with the house packed with newsmen, the curtain went up on The Case of Colonel Nickerson. It was soon obvious from the first act, and to no one's surprise, that the great drama had turned into something akin to a forum for Colonel Nickerson. First off, Nickerson pleaded guilty in effect to charges of laxity, whereupon the Army dropped the tough specifications about espionage and perjury (and thus reduced the sentence). Then, Nickerson's civilian counsel Ray H. Jenkins (of Army-McCarthy fame) produced...
...Commandant Leonard D. Heaton, half a dozen of the hospital's department heads worked over Prince Mashhur. Their conclusion: he had suffered a brain injury at his birth. The result is akin to cerebral palsy, though the child has no tremor. Abnormal nerve impulses to muscles in the right leg have shortened the heel cord (Achilles' tendon); its shortness forces the prince to walk on the toes and ball of the foot...
Barzun concludes: "To expand for the sake of a mere numerical show would be akin to demagogy, especially if done in the name of civic duty. And from the truly social point of view it would amount to debasing the coinage-a poor gift to the unsuspecting students seeking our degrees and to the community that would accept them at face value...
...girl's a girl--"; the typical ivy league character who came to Harvard to raise hell even as his grandfather Cabot before him; the intellectual who studies you as dance and looks as if he eats T.S. Eliot for breakfast and makes you feel some odd sensation akin to indigestion in your intellectual stomach simply because you've been eating lollipops all your life. The evening is made complete by a Junior from M.I.T. who climbed in the window and is--sad to say--NORMAL. I mean of course, IN COMPARISON...
...contemporary expression currently in vogue. Stamos has consistently been one of the chief American exponents of this type of painting. Its range of communication is the emotional reaction on the part of the beholder to its suggestive and subtle arrangements of forms and colors. Thus its appeal is akin to the appeal of Oriental calligraphy...