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...overstated the case by calling the medicare bill socialized medicine. Kennedy equated its opposition with callous disregard of elders' health. He bluntly said that he would get his way no matter what Congress did, and by insisting that medicare would be a partisan issue in the fall cam paign, solidified Republican opposition to it. To many - including some in his own party - he seemed to be more interested in a political issue than in a bill...
...teach her lesson, Mrs. Kellogg cam paigns ceaselessly against coloring books, against "art lessons" before the age of ten, against art teachers who reward copying and discourage imagination, and against the parent's temptation to cry out: "It's a man!" "All children are natural artists," Mrs. Kellogg says, "so why not let them be? Their art has a natural esthetic qual ity. All of it is beautiful, and none of it is ugly...
...Sophocles and Shakespeare in a library built by Christopher Wren. Soon scientists and classicists are sunk in shabby armchairs before gasping gas heaters, sipping sherry with their tutors. All around them is a happy blend of past and future: the green-lawned beauty of college "backs" on the River Cam, the sounds of Cantabs cheering on rowers with "Forward Christs!"-a way of life and learning that wears its seven centuries as jauntily as the modern undergraduate's motto: "I'm all right, Jack...
...Fiske Scholarship, named after a member of the Class of 1919 who died in World War I, annually sends a student to Trinity College, Cambridge, and awards him additional funds for "travel and study in France." The recipient stays in the suite of traditional "Fiske roms," overlooking the Cam River...
Academic freedom, insists Hesburgh, can and should flourish at a Catholic cam pus. Restrictions may occur, he concedes; in population studies, for example, birth control cannot be approved as a solution. But there restrictions end-or should end: "In nine years, I have never said to a single professor that any book or doctrine is out of bounds. I have no wish to be a medieval...