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...gamy as Swift; there are some campus orgies, and sex is kid's play to Goat-Boy. Like Swift, who satirized the casus belli between Britain and France as a dispute between Bigendians and Littlendians, Barth parodies today's split between the technologically similar but ideologically dissimilar East and West. Yet his prime concern is with myth and religion, with the divine and the animal...
...Brumel appeared on the scene. Milers come from everywhere. The last four world record holders, in order, have been a Yorkshireman, an Australian, a New Zealander and a Frenchman-and last week France's Michel Jazy found himself confronted with two new challengers who could hardly be more dissimilar. In Wanganui, New Zealand, East Germany's Jurgen May beat Kenya's Kipchoge Keino by a bare .3 sec. in the second fastest mile ever run: 3 min. 53.8 sec., just .2 sec. off the still unrecognized record that Jazy set last June...
...clarify action." I also believe and meant to suggest, that it is from this "framework," not from a direct empathy with specific human problems, that your passions chiefly flow. I did not intend to express disapproval of your approach, which is after all the approach of men as dissimilar and intelligent as Walter Lippman and Vladimir Lenin...
...cases have been pursued more vigorously by the Justice Department than its six current antitrust suits against bank mergers, which have been growing steadily in popularity in recent years. Last week Justice dealt with two of the cases in dissimilar ways, but in both sought to chop off a major portion of recently merged banks...
Caught between these dissimilar if not entirely disjunctive roles, this issue of the Review attempts to comment generally on undergraduate education with particular reference to Harvard, and with results which are for the most part vaguely unsatisfying. Editor David M. Gordon had a noble conception. As he correctly observes in the Introduction, collegiate education is an exciting, relevant, and vital topic, the Doty Report and the Faculty debate notwithstanding. In contrast to the stultifying and unproductive dialogue to which the community has been subjected during the past year, he hoped to present nothing less than a discussion of the quality...