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...wristwatch crystal): for knowing so precisely what was to be asked on the examination without benefit of an espionage system, Mr. Harvey deserved at least a passing grade. Anything he could write on so small a space might just as well have been memorized. Most of the myths students cherish about cheating are about as reliable. Ever hear about the boy with the hearing aid tuned in to a portable tape recorder...
This change, says Biographer Newton (Herman Melville] Arvin, was probably inevitable. "The culture we so fondly cherish is now disastrously threatened from without, and the truer this becomes, the intenser becomes the awareness of our necessary identification with it." In any case, says Jacques Barzun, by the end of World War 11 "it was no disgrace, no provincialism, to accept America and admire it ... America . . . was quite simply the world power, which means: the center of world awareness: it was Europe that was provincial...
...wonder whether Al understands that Harvard was chartered before the Commonwealth, and that there is some question which has the right "of eminent domain" over the other. The University would cherish an eighth House, and while a Central Square location may have its disadvantages, we can only urge that the Student Council vote--perhaps five to four--that the Cambridge City Hall be seized...
...than many others--the playwright strips them to their souls and shows their humiliating struggles to reveal and impart the depth and truth of their love for one another. Yet the curse of humanity is too strong upon them, for in love they injure and destroy what they would cherish and preserve. And always memories of what might have been intensify the agony of their failures. And so, struggling to escape one another, they find themselves drawn together again by the desperate need which only this painful devotion can provide...
Schlesinger argued that the Republic is strong enough to withstand reform, and that "even conservatism comes in time to cherish most of the reform it has so bitterly fought...