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...Durants are sometimes superficial: they are bound to be, considering the scope of their enterprise. But they have also achieved depths and insights lacking in many academic works. The charge that they are popularizers is meaningless. Of course they are popularizers-and great ones. It is apt that in this last volume they write of an age when to be a popularizer was still considered something brave and even glorious. As Will Durant once said: "History is baroque. It smiles at all attempts to force its flow into theoretical patterns or logical grooves; it plays havoc with our generalizations, breaks...
Arousing a good deal of controversy, Riesman said that the Law School tends to attract the "uncommitted student" who sees a degree in law as a good beginning for any one of a wide spectrum of careers. The Law Schools also attract activist students who are apt to place a good deal of pressure on the Administration to liberalize the curriculum...
...heavy money tends to come down on the top two or three" favorites in a race-which can put a bookmaker on the short end of the odds-he also began buying up cash "betting shops" (120 to date), the type patronized by smaller bettors who are more apt to take on the long shots...
Contrary to popular opinion abroad, Mrs. Suzman says the current Prime Minister, Johannes Balthazar Vorster is no improvement over the assassinated Hendrik Verwoerd. Although Vorster is apt to make superficial concessions, (such as integrating sports for the international games in order to get South Africa into the Olympics, and deigning to dine iwth African leaders in public) in general the machinery of apartheid had already been set up by Verwoerd and all Vorster is doing is implementing...
...asset which would allow a strong hippie element to emerge, in the final analysis Harvard's liberalism takes the wind out of potential protest issues. For instance how can you stage a "sleep-in" when parietals are constantly being liberalized. Last year proved that University officials are not apt to make any of the same kind of disasterous mistakes that Kerr made in Berkeley. During the McNamara demonstration Dean Monro was enlightened enough to know that if he called the police in to get the demonstration under control, he would have had a full scale riot on his hands...