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...Although they are instruments of the legislature, they are only generally answerable to it, and have no links with the executive. Their access to official papers is virtually unlimited, permitting them thorough review of administrative actions. One result is that they defend officials as well as citizens and knowledgeably dismiss most complaints as unfounded. Though all seek justice for individuals, their overriding goal is better administration...
...difficult to attach any clear significance to the myriad of resolutions which the conference adopted. The delegates did not represent a fair cross section of college students, teachers, and administrators. But it would be equally unfair to dismiss the conference as a bunch of leftists suggesting predictable reforms. Many of the students who came were presidents of their college councils, not simply disgruntled SDS types...
...Francisco newspapers called Scheer's campaign the "Children's Crusade." He says there's some truth to that: "I had my opponent's nephew working for me." But he complains that "people shouldn't dismiss me that easily. Radicals were once considered dangerous, you know, and then for a long time, they were thought just plain ineffectual. My campaign proves that's not true. When people see the returns Tuesday -- and Brown loses -- they'll realize how important radicals...
...naked," says Father John Dunne of Notre Dame. "It's always in a form. Modern man loves myth as much as his ancestors. It's just that OUF own myths are not as easy to see." In the same way, it is too easy an answer to dismiss the Trinitarian formula as mere outdated symbol. "Never say only a symbol," Paul Tillich perennially warned his pupils-and his life work is testimony to the importance of symbol to the human psyche and to the fact that the answers given by the Nazarene rabbi who died on the Cross...
LUNCHEON OR LUNCH BUT NOT BRUNCH! advised Emily Post. It took her only ten lines to dismiss the custom as a "single-headed, double-bodied deformity 'standees' of at a lunch language" that counter but not "suggests the beauty of hospitable living." That was in the 1950 edition of Etiquette. The current edition takes a different view of brunch, calls it "a pleasant sort of informal, even casual entertaining," offers tips on how to dress and what to serve. Moving with the times, the post-Post posture simply acknowledges that going out to Sunday brunch with family...