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...Britain's Austin-Healey Sprite, a junior edition of the popular Austin-Healey 100 sports car. It has seats for two, a convertible top, and a price tag suited to college-boy billfolds: $1,795. Another entry: the handsome AC Aceca hardtop coupé that seats two with plenty of luggage space, goes 106 m.p.h., and costs around...
...decisions should be based on "neutral principles of law which transcend the immediate result involved in the case at hand," Herbert Wechsler, professor of Law at Columbia University, declared last night. Discussing "Towards Neutral Principles of Constitutional Law," Wechsler delivered the annual Oliver Wendell Holmes Lecture last night in Austin Hall...
Their myopia is especially strong when they envision Harvard as a completely cosmopolitan college. This contention rests upon the dual claims of unreserved acceptance of large numbers of foreign students, and eager susceptibility to international influences ranging from Austin-Healy's to Zen Buddhism. Both these claims are more attractive than true. Foreign students are accepted on the same basis as all others, more often despite than because of their foreign origins and customs. The college community is liberal enough not to be suspicious of outsiders, but it is not particularly interested in them either. The typical foreign student...
...time fuse, a typescript of Nicholas Crabbe has lain for almost half a century in Oxford's Bodleian Library. Now exhumed for first publication, the novel fulfills the pungent promise hinted by literary investigators who have concerned themselves with the strange case of its author, Frederick William Serafino Austin Lewis Mary Rolfe, alias "Baron Corvo...
Pressed by Pam. Betjeman stands for the local, the small, the decent; and his verse is filled with an engaging shorthand of brand names -Austin cars, Craven A cigarettes, Heinz's Ketchup, Post Toasties. In one poem he used the names of real people to ironic effect ("T. S. Eliot, H. G. Wells and Edith Sitwell lie in Mell-stock Churchyard now"), but added the thoughtful note: "The names are put in not out of malice or satire but merely for their euphony...