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...antagonism is also renewed in the daily commuter battle, and this perhaps is the crux of much of the problem. Although many local boys live at the College, Brown still has a large number of commuting students; unfortunately, Providence has no public transportation system approximating the MTA. The result, of course, is that many commuters, in addition to a number of resident students, have cars at school. There is little room in the heavily settled university area for parking facilities, and most students must leave their automobiles on the street, in limited (two-hour) parking spaces...
...firmly believe that this ignorance is the crux of the criminal problem and that education is the solution, in spite of the many who claim that educating the criminal is like sharpening the claws of the lion. Education and and crime are incompatible. I refer to the type of crime committed by the group that is society's primary concern, the tavern-robbing criminals on their way to reform school or to prison for the first time. This group, I believe, can be reformed through education...
...crux of the case is this 1959 decision. Justice Brennan--who read the latest dismissal but continued to protest the 1959 precedent--put very precisely the argument against the Court's action: "The record not only fails to reveal any interest of the state sufficient to subordinate appellant's constitutionally protected rights but affirmatively shows that the investigatory objective was the impermissible one of exposure for exposure's sake...
...crux of his philosophy rests on this concept of the life-enhancing work of art. These objects were the noblest achievements of mankind and of the utmost importanced for the attainment of the Good Life. In "Duveen," S.N. Behrman quotes B.B. referring to a painting of Il Salvatore Benedicente owned by the Louvre. It gives an especially arresting example of B.B.'s application of his philosophy to works...
...profound effect of Negro sit-in strikes on the South. S.R.C. considers them "the most important development of 1960." With an impressive number of lunch-counter settlements to their credit, the strikers succeeded "in causing white Southerners to see Negro Southerners as individuals." Such is the crux of the case for school desegregation. "What so many dime stores have acknowledged is what the lawsuits have asked, and still ask, the school systems to practice...