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President Pusey, in discussing the bill, commented that the proposed action attacked the basic American pattern of support for public agencies. He felt that too much emphasis would now be put on large donating and that this violated the historic principle of contributions to any worthy private endeavor...
...struck Thomas Gold, professor of Astrophysics at Cornell University and former professor of Astronomy at Harvard, as less dangerous than the opposition between those who embrace the ideals of education, culture, and intellect, and those who denigrate these ideals. Indeed, he said, "we should diversify the branches of human endeavor, and if someone in one branch can't communicate with somebody in another, that's tough...
...well-found fear that he is no intellectual match for either of them. Out of seventeen opportunities since he was twenty-one, he has voted only four times in local, state, and national elections. He has made no record of accomplishment in any area of human endeavor to suggest that he is remotely qualified for the U. S. Senate. As Professor Mark DeWolfe Howe, an outspoken "New Frontier" advocate, said some months ago of Teddy: "His academic career is mediocre. His professional career is virtually non-existent. His candidacy is both preposterous and insulting...
...stands of bees. Ev delivered milk to customers, sold eggs and vegetables. "There was a certain ruggedness about life," he recalls. "And a certain ruggedness in living that life." There was church on Sundays, followed by Sunday school, followed by a meeting of the young people's Christian Endeavor (a Bible group that elected Ev president year after year), and in the evening another church service. At home, says Dirksen, "there was the Big Book on the parlor table. And you opened the Big Book in those days...
...constructed by comic dramatists of genuine wit and ability, humorists like Georges Feydeau, Tristan Bernard and Georges Courteline. If such authors may never be credited with bringing about any major revolutions in the French (or World) theatre, they were, all the same, uncontested experts in the no less noble endeavor of showing their contemporaries the laughable side of a life too often taken too seriously by too many. This is not to say that their works are necessarily trivial. One the contrary; they can, and often do, contain food for reflection, albeit of an easy-going and not-too-taxing...