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...Student Council acted hastily last week in speaking for the entire undergraduate body, the proposed Council poll to determine student opinion scarcely seems better-planned. The poll, two questions to determine whether professors are indoctrinating their brood to Communism, was designed to serve a double purpose. Actually, however, the poll serves neither. Representing only ten percent of the College, the results will be too inconclusive for an effective answer to McCarthy's charges. And the nature of the poll is too general and vague to be of use to the faculty. The important aspect of the poll then...
Both the nosebleed and the dream occurred before the airplane had been invented, and although he is an extremely modest and practical man, Sikorsky cannot help but brood about them. There are times, in fact, when he experiences an uneasy amazement at his own mental processes?particularly at a sense of intuition that has nudged him to many a successful engineering conclusion that neither he nor the science of aerodynamics could explain rationally until years afterward...
...want to root around and brood for a while, it is possible to conclude that the picture isn't quite perfect. Which it isn't. Not quite. But I doubt if that's going to bother anyone. As an immediate experience it is overpowering; as a lasting work of art it is memorable...
...appeal of the 1885 version of the soap opera must have been strong, for either grandmother or one of her brood carefully preserved A Friendly Turn in the commodious family Bible...
...Heritages Resurgent. The sons of the revolution appear to have learned to cherish equally their Indian and Spanish Christian heritages. Having accepted their past, they are ceasing to brood over it. Today it is fashionable in Mexico to collect pre-Columbian art, to dabble in archaeology, to wear Indian costumes and to study Indian customs. At the same time the Roman Catholic Church, long suppressed and persecuted by anticlerical revolutionists, is resurgent in Mexico. All over the country new modern churches are rising to replace those wrecked in the revolution. Nuns and priests wear their habits and cassocks in public...