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Beyond the social atmosphere are a series of purely logistical problems that keep the Senior Faculty away from the Houses. "Only four kinds of professors live in Cambridge," the axiom runs, "the young, the rich, the childless, and the emeritus." Most of the rest live in Belmont where the schools are better and housing is easier to find. It is difficult to lure these men back to Cambridge for House activities at night...
...urban Southern Baptist and Methodist congregations there is a growing spiritual sophistication about interpreting the Bible. But in country villages, among the fervent fundamentalist churchlets, the literal truth of God's word is an unalterable axiom. "Even the mention of Christ walking on water or Jonah being swallowed by a whale can quickly develop into an insoluble controversy if it is suggested that such miracles are symbolic," writes Caldwell. In one such back-country church recently, he says, the congregation became concerned when the minister neglected to specifically reaffirm from the pulpit that Christ was born of a virgin...
...temporary paralysis Gordon's withdrawal has caused in the B.U. movement and the vacuums it exposed in the SDS thinking lend an uneasy credence to the popular moderate axiom on radical protestors--the worst thing that can happen to them is to get what they...
Clearly, what brought audiences back to the Bijou time and again was not the thrill of solving the mystery before Chan did but the homely wisdom of the sub-gumshoe, a man who always had an axiom to grind. With articles and conjunctions thrown to the wind, Charlie's observations usually made up in specific gravity what they lacked in grammar...
...axiom that this country's tangled Selective Service System is bound to be unfair to somebody fell with a crash on the Harvard community yesterday. The National Security Council's draft directive puts almost all college seniors and most first-year graduate students at the head of the line for next year's draft calls. No one here next year will be able to believe President Johnson's reassurance that United States society can continue to roll along in the face of the Vietnam debacle. Three-quarters of the second-year law class will go off to war, and there...