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...think the new breed of student is necessarily conservative. I think the people who are on the political right at Harvard are looked on by the average Harvard student as much more freaks than even we are....I think what's more typical of the new breed is that people think that problems are essentially individual. Problems to do with competition, problems to do with career success--there's no such thing as a collective solution any more. And that's the error we're trying to attack.... What disturbs me pretty profoundly about the new breed of student...
...that the government is ruining the country. The boy replies that his teacher says the government should help people in Depression times. Fuming in anger, the father deliberately makes the boy late for school. Ramsay seems to embody the Wasps as Gurney critically and compassionately sees them-a breed whose manners calcified into morals while the society around them abandoned morality...
...excellence remains. The U.S. has won 140 Nobel Prizes since World War II - although cuts in Government research grants will reduce the level of that particular excellence in the years the come. American medicine, biology and physics lead the world. American politicians (that least excellent breed) may be better educated, more honest and industrious - more excellent - than ever. Vermont maple syrup is excellent. American agriculture is excellent. Ted Hood's sails are excellent. American telephone service is excellent. American professional sports would be excellent if they were not so drenched in greed. Look abroad: the French language is excellent...
Some may complain that Buffett merely romanticizes an elapsed era which is of little relevance today. But the past three decades have proved to be a dry spell for romantics, who are a vanishing breed as it is. Barraged with the likes of Joseph McCarthy, Sirhan Sirhan, Gordon Liddy and Rosie Ruiz, we have been wanting for heroes. And it will be a long time before anyone romanticizes budget cuts--besides they're boring things to sing about...
Report of the disease-carrying mosquitoes circulated the globe earlier this month alter the Soviet magazine "Literary Gazette" contended that the CIA was funding a project to use radiation and genetic science of breed the pests. The Gazette added that several persons had contracted yellow fever after having been bitter by strange mosquitoes. The Diamondback, the university's campus news paper, reported this month...