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...fans will see for themselves when the curtain goes up on "Old Faces of 1953-4" at 8:30 tonight. Also present will be the B.U. critics with an axe to grind and the newspaper critics with bated breath and baited pens, looking and hoping for the best...
...loves his hashish.* One day not long ago, after a zesty breakfast of coffee and hashish, Huseyin glanced out of his window and, to his horror, saw a detachment of Soviet soldiers standing menacingly in the garden of his neighbor. Without a moment's hesitation, he seized an axe, leaped the fence and began laying about with a will. He dropped three to the ground before the police, hastily summoned by the neighbor, at last subdued Huseyin long enough to point out that his enemies were nothing but olive trees. Huseyin would have none of it. The police, desperate...
...paper at a University like this, where they feel that the curriculum and the academic subjects are all important and that they can learn more in theclassroom that matters than outside it. This tends to leave the initiative, in college journalism, to those who have some ideological axe to grind, and may be one partial explanation for the Stalinoid complexion of a number of college papers (of course matters stand differently where there is a journalism school, when work on the college paper is a form of academic activity). In other words, what I find among students here is that...
...this brand of objectivity is not overly popular. Most complaints, though, are based on blindness to a basic distinction: the difference between slanting and interpretation. To the uninitiated in this long-standing controversy, both appear interchangeable. They are not. Where slanting means conscious distortion in the interests of whatever axe one wants to grind, interpretation implies as pure an intent as straight recitation. Its purpose is not to-exclude relevant facts, but to construct as complete a picture of events as possible...
Collins claimed that residents of Hollis and other Yardlings who gathered when a sprinkler blew off on Hollis' top floor four weeks ago, stole a fire axe, a helmet valued at $16, and a tiller seat...