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...high-pressure social life or the expense of fraternity affiliation. Such students remain independent and are thus forced to live in dormitori where social contacts are impeded, where the physical plant is inadequate for intellectual and social needs, and where artificial social barriers prohibit an atmosphere conducive to scholar endeavor...
...does Duskin worry about policing students. Eight of them have set up their pads in a cabin outside town-in what combination he cares not. Says Duskin: "You can't lock girls up at 10:30 p.m. and expect them to understand The Republic." The only athletic endeavor is judo, "a thing of being concerned with your body and what it does." The judo squad calls itself the Transcendentalists, and its motto is: "It's not whether you can win or lose, but whether you can rise above the scene...
...whose fiercely proselytizing followers regard him as the fifth hoarse man of the Apocalypse. A Condon novel has the sound and shape of a bagful of cats. In The Oldest Confession, The Manchurian Candidate and Some Angry Angel, Condon garnered fans with accounts, written in messianic exasperation, of criminal endeavor, fate's falling cornices, widespread venality, the search for truth, Chinese torture practices, and the love of good women. The sort of nuance that drives his fans loopy with admiration comes when a concessionaire in Some Angry Angel, observing a figure perched on a window ledge, hurriedly prints...
...young minister faced his congregation in the Central Christian Church in Boone, Iowa, and said earnestly: "The conscientious Christian should be profoundly concerned with the affairs of human endeavor and with man's efforts to organize a just and honorable society through political action." That, back in 1956, was the Rev. Merwin Coad's way of announcing his candidacy for the U.S. House of Representatives. He won, and off he went to Washington-where, last week, Democrat Coad, 36, was up to his eyeglasses in trouble...
...months ago, and a fulltime staff of only three. It is often badly written, amateurish, and narrow in its approach. As far as the Inquirer is concerned, the only important stories are those involving the Negro's aggressive pursuit of equality. But in this electric sector of human endeavor, the Inquirer is giving lessons to newspapers all over the South...