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Mother Teresa and her sisters are not without their critics. To some, the nuns and brothers are merely bandaging a civic wound that needs drastic surgery. "We are not trying so much to do social work," Mother Teresa explains, "as to live out that life of love, of compassion, that God has for his people." The poor, she says, suffer even more from rejection than material want. "If we didn't discard them they would not be poor. An alcoholic in Australia told me that when he is walking along the street he hears the footsteps of everyone coming...
...Radcliffe varsity basketball squad kept pace with a powerful Brown team for 30 minutes last night, but succumbed in the last 10 minutes to the hot-shooting Bruins, 55-41, in the Providence Civic Center...
...change from the intimate IAB to the 8000-seat Civic Center gave the Crimson fits all night. But Radcliffe hung in the game largely because Brown was also playing its first contest in the center and had problems adjusting to the hard backboards and foreign floor surface. Ten minutes into the first half, Brown...
...teams traded the lead during the opening minutes of the second stanza. Midway through the period, with Radcliffe behind by four points, the Bruins finally adjusted to the Civic Center court. Two fast-break buckets followed by a successful outside shot ran the Brown lead up to ten points...
...there is the effect of the process upon the intellectual himself. Self-confrontation and self-recognition are bound to result from a process in which intellectual qualities are pitted against the problem of meting and doling unequal laws to the general savagery. There is no intellectual symmetry at a civic association meeting and one can only vote "yes" or "no" on complex legislation whatever theoretic intellectual alternatives may exist. The personal result is an immersion into the reality of life and the necessity for decision which, in general, is better than unreality and indecision...