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Harris intended the final section to "get brighter, and end with optimism for the Great Society which we hope to get." Over crashing percussion, the music mounted in overlapping panels of winds and strings. But it all seemed pumped up; and the amplified piano vibrations that ended the work were like the rasp of escaping air as the climax, the theme of hope, and the listener's expectations all deflated at once...
...flow of Americans here and is unlikely to deny landed immigrant status to many. For years one of the critical problems the country has been saddled with is the flow of brains and talent out of the country to the United States where wages are higher and prospects brighter. Draft resistance may reverse the flow...
...wanted to further his education got full tuition, fees and book costs plus $75-a-month living allowance, the returnee from Viet Nam can expect a maximum of only $130 a month to cover everything. Currently, there are 450,000 returnees receiving G.I. schooling benefits. They enjoy slightly brighter job prospects than did their predecessors, largely because the U.S. economy is stronger than ever before. Last year the U.S. Employment Service found jobs for 1,200,000 veterans-many fresh home from Viet Nam; only 2.4% of all Vietvets are unemployed (v. 3.9% for the population as a whole...
Even in the day of ever-rising academic standards and ever-brighter freshman classes, it is still possible for students to earn a credit or two without really trying. Despite the best efforts of administrators to stamp them out, U.S. universities still have their share of "micks" (Mickey Mouse courses), "snaps," "guts" or "roaring guts...
...spacecraft approached the velocity of light, some of the stars ahead of it began to blink out; their light had been shifted into higher, ultraviolet frequencies that are invisible to the human eye. Others, like Betelgeuse and Aldebaran, which look red to observers on earth, actually became brighter: their substantial lower frequency infrared output, normally invisible to the human eye, had been shifted into the visible range...