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...inclusion means a corresponding exclusion. And, even when significant news is reported, as prisoners of the cult we may be tempted to overlook it. Readers often prefer to be amused rather than informed. Who doesn't gravitate toward the human-interest story, perhaps to the neglect of the duller but more significant news? . . . The effect is the displacement, or downgrading, of significant events...
Student bureaucracy is dull, alas, but in your article of February 28 on the Radcliffe House System you have made it even duller. In fact, if not in the CRIMSON, East House has done more than "schedule several events." We have instituted lunch hours (from 12:30-1:45 in Eliot and Whitman); we have held a series of Sunday teas with members of the Administration, the Faculty and the Radcliffe Institute; we have had two and plan three more House Dinners with Faculty, undergraduate and graduate students interested (though not necessarily specializing) in a particular field, such as music...
Mother and uncle are now married, the Claudius family steel plant bulges with orders from the Volkswagen people, and it's time to tip the duller members of the audience off: this is a modern Hamlet...
...ball livelier? Were the pitchers duller? Were the bats whippier? American League hitters heated up the argument last week by blasting out two new home-run records...
...singularly inappropriate to entertain a friendly Japanese dignitary aboard a ship, even if the ship's name happened to be the Honey Fitz and not the U.S.S. Missouri. To other Washingtonians, any sort of Potomac cruise just seemed like a big bore. Asked one wag: "What's duller than a boat ride down the Potomac?" The answer: "The boat ride back...