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Granting the value of such a code of behaviour, how is one to put it into practice? One person's isolated resolve to treat his next outing with the opposite sex as a shared endeavor would be instantly misunderstood and ridiculed. Such an action constitutes too violent a rejection of the generally accepted value-system of this society. No matter if the courtesy of paying for the girl turns out to be malignant, no one person can make a dent in the established way of doing things. Imagine going up to the average slick Cliffie intimating that...
...stir up a hornets' nest of emotions. Unlike in this country, there is hope in Britain that the problem can be mastered. "We have great advantages (over America)," the Race Relations Board stated in their yearly report. "Our colored population has arrived here far more recently and patterns of behaviour both among immigrants and among the indigenous population, are more flexible; we are more law abiding and the structure of our constitution gives the central government far greater control over local politics. We have therefore the opportunity to avoid many of the difficulties with which the United States is struggling...
When a soldier and a girl arrived it looked like there might be breakfast for the group and there'd be a little happening. But no. No frenzy, no paint-throwing, no cannibal behaviour. The six just grooved on grapes, strawberries and roast chicken...
...Elizabeth's England, the Stripling got expelled from Cambridge and Sandhurst. The story shows how The stripling and Mr. Suave prove they're brilliant, the less likely one proves he's even trickier, both wind up in jail. Tucked around the robbery are proper teas, not-so-proper behaviour after tea, some sightseeing, and a coming-out party distinguished by champagne showers and firecrackers. A modest farce...
...culture of the students: By now there are enough students associated together in large enough groups and for long enough periods of time and with enough freedom so that an independent student culture can develop with its own dress, style of behaviour, code of ethics. It can have a particularly strong hold on a large campus which provides little contact with faculty, administration and parents. Such a student culture reinforces itself and gives a sense of protection against external threats. It may attract to itself the related culture of the non-student and draw in some faculty adherents...