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...Disturb Tradition...
People who like to read themselves to sleep with a short story or two had better stay away from this collection. Author Elliott does not write to soothe. His intention is to disturb, and if residual disturbance in the reader's mind is the mark of a good storyteller, then he must be one of the best now at work in English...
Opposition to constitutional reform itself comes from those who because of political interest and sentimental conservatism will obstruct any attempt to disturb the status quo. The Governor's Council and County officials quite correctly see their positions threatened, and many in the 280-large General Court (the third largest legislature in the nation) fear that any reform movement would cut its size. Since two consecutive legislatures must pass constitutional amendments, action in that body is unlikely. An amendment legalizing the graduated income tax got past the last session, but next time reluctance to have new taxation and inertial resistance...
...earlier speech, Whiteman explained the Freshman dilemma: "There is halfway stage between the student who leaves high school and the mature scholar." Monro later made clear that Harvard assumes students will go on to graduate school; but the growing similarity of colleges to prep schools did not seem disturb conference participants...
...whirlwind, two-day tour of Jerusalem and Bethlehem, Dr. Fisher was honored by Armenian Orthodox and Greek Orthodox patriarchs, Coptic and Maronite prelates. Anglican bishops, a Lutheran provost, an Ethiopian abbot, Franciscan monks, a Moslem sheik. But even the tensions of Israeli-Arab politics could not disturb the Primate. Before a crowd of 1,000 people, Bethlehem's Mayor Ayoub Musallam called on the archbishop to look carefully at the "plight and situation of the Arab refugees, our brethren who are still living in tents, huts and caves." Expertly sidestepping Ayoub's entreaty, Dr. Fisher answered: "What...