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Then there were the drifters, the life-collectors. There were only a couple of these. They had had sufficient experience to make them more honest and so clearer about what social effect their participation in the struggle was really going to have, and they didn't talk about it much...

Author: By Peter Delissovoy, | Title: Failure in Albany II: The White Minority | 11/12/1963 | See Source »

...trip to Cuba planned by three Harvard students, however, should provide a clearer test of the right to travel. First, the political beliefs of these students can by no means be considered un-American. Second, rather than openly flouting the ban, the students applied for validated passports through the proper legal channels...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: New Cuba Request | 10/29/1963 | See Source »

William Alfred's Agamemnon is only incidentally a Greek tragedy. Rather, a world with a clearer justice than our own, his Agamemnon suits the tuxedoed gentlemen and gowned ladies who made it live in the theatre as well as those, more colorfully garbed, who live it in less pellucid form outside. It is a world of diamantine retribution; the wages of Agamemnon's and Clytemnestra's infidelity are hard and glittering...

Author: By Joel E. Cohen, | Title: Agamemnon | 10/15/1963 | See Source »

...definition, pathology is the study of disease, a statement that scarcely distinguishes it from other branches of medicine. Pathologists try to make their efforts a little clearer with a lot more words: "Observation and understanding of the progress of disease by morphological, microscopic, chemical, microbiologic, serologic or any other type of laboratory examination made on the patient or on any material obtained from the patient." The list ranges wide enough to include work for some 5,500 U.S. physicians qualified as specialists in pathology...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Pathology: The Last Word | 10/11/1963 | See Source »

...many South Vietnamese newspapers, but last week the government banned them, presumably on the theory that some star-minded dissident might be moved to try a coup on an astrologically auspicious day. In South Viet Nam everybody was indeed on the move, but where they were moving was no clearer than the zodiac. The U.S. was increasingly unhappy with President Ngo Dinh Diem (Capricorn), and after what the U.S. officially called his "brutal" crackdown on the Buddhists, Washington obviously could not string along with him as if nothing had happened...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: South Viet Nam: Coping with Capricorn | 9/6/1963 | See Source »

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