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Apparently both articles were arbitrarily assigned by the editor, who pays well. The anti-prep piece has the one saving grace of criticizing the medium and the audience for which it is written, in short, the Ivy myth. Aside from this quality, the author shows little concern with the disciplines of a private school education, and places too much emphasis on the sexual ineptitude of its products. The writer, however, gets off one classic generalization which almost makes his effort worthwhile: "In addition the society serving as the basis for the New England preparatory schools--th upperclass, urban East--cannot...
...noise of bickering, of suspicion that others are not doing their full share. But the dominant note will be simple and wholesome fear-fear of the enormous, suddenly dramatized power of Soviet Russia, which the Sputniks blazoned across the world's skies. Last week there was growing concern that the U.S., to whom they had looked for comfort and new leadership to meet the Sputniks' challenge, was failing their hopes. Doubts deepened when, with a thunderous rumble, the Vanguard rocket burned on its launching pad at Cape Canaveral and tossed the tiny U.S. satellite, bleating electronically...
...Ifni war is no concern of ours," protested Si Abderamane Zyatt, the jovial ex-linotype operator who governs the Moroccan Goulimine area bordering the little coastal enclave. "It is a spontaneous rising of the inhabitants against Spanish oppression...
Crime v. Sin. With the spiritual might of the Established Church behind him, the Archbishop of Canterbury gave Pakenham's view his unqualified support. Britain's Primate had earlier drawn a clear distinction between "crime" as a concern of the law-and "sin" as the concern of the Church. Law, he said, should still be invoked to protect and control those under 21 and "to protect the unwilling over that age," but the sin of homosexuality by consenting adults in private "should not come within the ambit...
There are no immediate plans to resume talks for the property. Pompeo stated that he has not received an offer from the University to provide another location for the carbarn. He said that Harvard is the only concern interested in acquiring the land...