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Yale has done nothing illegal, unless refusing to act as a pawn is illegal. The Langer affair arose solely from another in a series of childish, petty disputes between the NCAA and AAU over control of American amateur athletics. Langer, with Yale's full consent, participated in last summer's Maccabiah games as a member of the U. S. basketball team. But basketball, ironical, was the only sport forbidden to NCAA athletes at the Games, since the NCAA wished to deprive the AAU (which organized the basketball team for the Games) of the major portion of its squad and thus...

Author: By Bennett H. Beach and Bf JOHN L. powers, S | Title: Soaking up the Press | 1/17/1970 | See Source »

...official censure of Yale by the ECAC executive council two days ago, and the council's recommendation of a possible further penalty if Yale fails to disqualify an ineligible player from its basketball squad, is still another disgraceful episode in the petty, childish bickering that he's characterized NCAA-AAU relations during...

Author: By John L. Powers, | Title: Powers of the Press | 12/12/1969 | See Source »

...what they admit to keeping. Ishmael Reed has taken assorted scraps and shavings from American history, religion, and polities and made of them a tale that at first sounds like a child's nightmare of shadows and misconceptions. But by the time you finish, it's no longer so childish...

Author: By Lynn M. Darling, | Title: From the Shelf Yellow Back Radio Broke-Down | 12/2/1969 | See Source »

...there in the cold morning drizzle directing traffic. They smiled back and said "hi" back. And the marshals, freezing all along the route, were good people. Almost all the people were good ones, not rotten apples. But there were lots of not-so-good people sleeping, "ignoring" this childish demonstration...

Author: By Bennett H. Beach, | Title: The eyes have it The March Against Death | 11/19/1969 | See Source »

...Explosion" article [July 11] revealed the childish and unsophisticated attitude of many people today regarding sex. Preoccupation with sex goes hand in hand with advanced civilization. Actually it is one of the facets of permissiveness. When the Roman Empire really got ripe with decadence and permissiveness, the emperors themselves practiced extreme licentiousness, including incest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Aug. 1, 1969 | 8/1/1969 | See Source »

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