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...school, he started at a $12-a-week job selling newspaper subscriptions. By age 20 he had worked himself up to being Long Island's youngest newspaper editor, on the Smithtown Star. One morning in 1933, Church Dropout Henry found himself in a car discussing religion with an ardent layman. After three hours, he says, "I made a commitment to Christ. I knew my life was no longer my own." So even the faith of a rationalist was born in a typical Evangelical...
...eight-year veteran of the Harvard admissions office is an ardent booster in other, less visible ways. A member of the Harvard Hockey Solicitors Committee and treasurer of the Friends of Harvard Hockey, Richardson hopes that the Crimson skaters can maintain the unique three-level program that has been abandoned for fiscal purposes at other institutions...
...third of a century as soon as they got the vote." Second--and perhaps more telling, although Baker fails to develop this idea fully--the women of the Seven Sisters failed to support the feminist movement because, in the words of Bryn Mawr's Carey Thomas, herself an ardent feminist, it is "the symbol of a stupendous social revolution and we are frightened before it." The women who attend the Seven Sisters, like the men who have traditionally attended the Ivy Leagues, come from predominantly upperclass, Eastern establishment backgrounds. Any threat to the status quo threatened their whole social standing...
...prepares the reader for the rush of intense intellectuality and social activism that marked her twenties. After graduation from the Lycee Henri IV in Paris, Weil entered France's prestigious Ecole Normale as one of the first women admitted to the institute, and proceeded to scandalize professors with her ardent and polemical radicalism. She habitually carried a trade union bulletin in one pocket of a rumpled man's jacket and the French communist newspaper L'Humanite in the other. She unabashedly solicited donations to worker relief funds from incredulous instructors...
Nothing short of a full amnesty, implying an official willingness to forget the acts of all war resisters, will satisfy those relatively few exiles who have taken up the lingering war issue as an almost professional crusade. Among other, less ardent exiles, reaction to the Carter program could be shaped to some extent by their current circumstances...