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Gratefully the Jews included their benefactor in their prayers, petitioning God to "exalt our sovereign and Holy Father, the Pope." The group also developed a self-protective prejudice of their own. Foreign Jews were tolerated for three nights, then asked to leave. Lingerers were escorted out of town by the Pope's guard. When a "foreign" Jew married into the Carpentras circle, the locals called it a mixed marriage...
...with the new young, while they are making up their minds, is to keep them out of trouble." Those who knew him were not surprised that he showed no particular concern when, a few weeks before his death, Carnegie-Mellon University, of which he was by far the largest benefactor, opened its facilities to a convention of radicals who occupied most of their time denouncing his domination of the city...
...loving kids out for a lark, that Gene McCarthy's policy of precipitate flight from Viet Nam is best, that the Nixon Administration is a fascist dictatorship, that students own the universities and are entitled to burn them down at will, that Che Guevara was a public benefactor, etc. ad nauseam. We heard it, we heard it. We don't believe...
...told the review's 6,000 subscribers that the next issue will likely be the last. Kenyon College trustees, who paid a $40,000 subsidy last year, have decided to pay no more. The only hope for the Kenyon's survival, it seems, is some new outside benefactor...
...sidewalk was getting too cold for card games, and we abandoned that pastime in favor of more rigorous activities. Some people were doing calisthenics. Free coffee was being passed out by an anonymous benefactor. I offered my treasured cookies to our card-playing friends, and Dave and I relaxed. We had illegally made our way into line without a major conflict...