Word: amissions
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...touch of the enfant terrible. He invented his own fopperies, adapted his own fiction from the medieval, translated his own pleasures from the French. He had the ruling-class horror of being a professional, yet in his amateur way could claim with much truth that "no profession comes amiss to me." He was a printer, an innovating builder, an M.P., an antiquary, a historian, a novelist, a playwright, a collector...
...past neither official nor academic Harvard has found anything amiss in this situation. According to the traditional view, the freshman should be left alone to fend for himself; take him in hand and you prevent his maturing. Apparently this line of thinking is going out of style, for the Freshman Dean's Office has effected this year the first major revision of the advising system since its inception...
...year, and figures on drawing 2,000,000 people a season (last year Disneyland drew 49.9 million. Freedomland 1.5 million). In the first five days, 37,000 visitors stampeded the grounds. They toured the river in the French section with a Texas-twanging pilot ("Good evening, mess amiss"), heard a red, white and blue band play the "Six Flags Over Texas" march 30 times a day, saw four hoodlums arrested after spilling soda pop out of the windows of the aerial lift...
...field of nine thoroughbreds paraded onto Belmont's 1½-mi. track, playful Carry Back seemed unnaturally placid. But the crowd sensed nothing amiss. At one time or another. Carry Back had trounced every other horse in the race. "The only thing that can beat him," crowed Owner Jack Price, "is bad racing luck." By post time, Carry Back was a prohibitive 2-to-5 favorite-every other entry was a long shot. Longest shot of all was a dark bay colt named Sherluck, who had won only one stakes race in two years. The odds on Sherluck...
...longer enough. Radiation from nuclear reactors, radioisotopes. particle accelerators, bomb-test fallout, X-ray machines and countless other sources cannot be seen, felt, heard, smelled or tasted. And radiation from any of these sources can fatally fry a man before he has the faintest notion that anything is amiss...