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Getting His. The farmer himself, aware of all the complaints about farm subsidies and wasteful gluts, had begun to be touchily defensive about the whole subject. Neither the parasite that many a city dweller considered him nor the unfettered, rugged individualist he liked to fancy himself, he felt entitled to help from his Government. Industry, after all, had its tariffs and its Government contracts; the airlines and the shipping lines had their subsidies; the working man had social security, a guaranteed minimum wage. Why shouldn...
...purity. The Yale A. A. released a calm but firm reply to the statement that the Big Three contests didn't mean much any more. No doubt, Princeton, as the holder of the last three titles, will also take umbrage at this charge from the Big Three's cellar-dweller. Perhaps the rest of the Ivy League is perturbed by the fact that Harvard has announced its intention of going small time, but is still going to play six of seven Ivy teams...
This enigmatic tree-dweller (Whose sex could not be discerned by the more sage experts on Owlology) last year chose the Yard as his own domain. He (or she) sadly diminished the ranks of local pigeonry, thus causing furious partisanship among Yardlings. The advocates of campus cleanliness were decidedly pro-Owl, while the pig-con-squirrel lovers began to sport bows and arrows. The SPCA decreed that harming the Owl would upset the entire local balance of nature; budding politicos tried to capture it for Smoker campaigns; LIFE took its picture; but the Harvard Owl finally vanished as mysteriously...
...What's more, the modernists are leaving their customers no place to hide. Surrounded by transparent walls, the harried dweller in the Neutra home must seek total privacy-if he is old-fashioned enough to desire it-in the confines of his bathroom. HOWARD B. UPTON Tulsa, Okla...
...disintegrate, all that was formerly race, class, or nationhood." Many Americans share with Eliot his fear of the standardizing power of technology and mass education; Lewis relishes the prospect of "one intellectual and emotional standard" which he hopes will soon make "the inhabitant of Mexico City . . . indistinguishable from the dweller in Montreal...