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...colleges. As higher education has become a greater source of news both in the U.S. and abroad, we have placed increasing emphasis on the efforts of student reporters who tell us about campus attitudes and matters of educational interest with a sensitivity and immediacy which an outsider could attain only with great difficulty...
...them, they are not exercising the rights of speech and free expression guaranteed them by the Constitution and the general principles of the University. Such organizations have goals and interests. They seek not just to express those goals and interests, but to attract men and women who will help attain them...
Relaxation is the hardest, but also the most necessary quality for a performer to attain. It was only in the Britten, where Miss Wilsen did not have to struggle with a less-than-familiar language, that her performance got off the ground and even ended the program with a lively, humorous flair. All in all it was an admirable maiden recital and I am sure those who were there look forward to hearing from Miss Wilsen again...
...then deflating his rationalizations. Nonviolence is enforced by an adult sitting quietly outside the circle; but things get rough, for no boy leaves Highfields until he has proved to both his peers' and the adult's satisfaction that he has mastered his hang-ups enough to attain a very practical goal-avoiding future arrest...
...name of all the past and present editors of the Partisan Review did Jack Kerouac, cult leader of post-World War II intellectual vagrants, ever attain standing as a member (let alone chieftain) of the avantgarde? Vanity of Duluoz, his best book, is a picaresque novel in a tradition as old as Tristram Shandy and about as avant-garde as Laurence Sterne-a man in holy orders, puckish though...