Word: commitments
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...sideboard. The wife, as generally happens in a Bergman gavotte, frees herself of both lover and husband, but with maternal indulgence accepts the husband again. Aficionados will appreciate a surprising private joke; as the lovers loll in a boathouse, brooding over the sin they are about to commit, an enormous black fish appears in the water below. The adulterers regard it for a moment. Then one of them, mocking psychiatry and symbol-mad film directors, laughs wryly "at Freud's theories," and they get back to their lovemaking...
...following articles provide background and interpretation of various aspects of educational policy; others focus directly on the undergraduate's response to his education. Stephen Jencks analyses the difficulties that the University faces in formulating limited educational programs to remedy ill-defined undergraduate problems; Allan Katz describes students who commit what he calls "academic suicide"; and James Ullyot attempts to define the relationship between Harvard's athletes and the rest of the community...
...rest of his life--is not the spark to academic action but to contemplation. Unless he is driven by a need to achieve (usually inspired by his parents), and unless he has the strength to persevere in his work while he follows his thoughts, he is likely to commit what will turn out to be academis suicide. (Of all colleges, Harvard grants the greatest freedom, and is therefore the cause of the deepest irresponsibility...
...sinking ship. Only the autumn before, the CRIMSON, Lampoon, and Life magazine had gone on sale in tandem at a combined price of $5.00, never again to be duplicated. A mild stir arose at the vague revival of the Med. Fac, Club, open to any undergraduate who could commit anything which would have him expelled and jailed if caught. But the revival died quickly; members succeeded only in blowing up the old well in front of Hollis Hall...
...years, Japan has been a drunkard's paradise. Public Law 39, passed in 1907, declared that a man under the influence of alcohol must be considered to be "temporarily unsound of mind," thereby exonerating him of legal responsibility for any crimes committed when drunk. As a result, Japan's tipsy tipplers break store windows, kick dents in car fenders, insult passing women, even commit murder, without fear of lawsuit or punishment. (One jurist estimates that an average of ten murderers a year go scot-free because...