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...clear now. After talking to Dewey Cheatham '65, Assistant Dean in Charge of Study Cards, I understand why we must pay through the nose for late cards...
Perhaps the grandiosity of this "social vision" indicates that we should give more respect to those who attempted to craft one in the past. I find examples in people like John Dewey, with his great veneration of democracy; or Herbert Marcuse, who spotted the debilitating effects of untrammeled capitalism all around him; and presently Jurgen Habermas, who sees in unlimited corporate expansion a new colonization of our minds and lifestyles potentially as insidious and oppressive as colonial regimes of old. Any of these theorists could profitably be studied by those seeking to "place" their work in a larger social context...
Last week Autry and the other Wildcats visited the Dewey Elementary School in Evanston, where they received roses with purple streamers and a giant football sign made by all the kids in the school. A second-grade class serenaded the team by singing, "Everything's coming up roses...
Chris Dewing '95, a proctor in Matthews, said that the burglar entered the room of one of his proctees who lives on the first floor. "He then picked his way through the dorm," said Dewey...
When dinner was over, Eisner went to the law firm Dewey Ballantine to iron out the final niceties of Disney's $19 billion deal to buy Capital Cities/ABC. And next morning, when he and Cap Cities chairman Thomas Murphy arrived on Good Morning America to stun the world with news of their merger, it was tempting to view Eisner's triumph as the kind of danouement usually reserved for the last 10 minutes of a Disney movie. Wall Street whooped at the deal, which united Disney's theme parks and movie and television studios with ABC's gold-plated network...