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...ninth time that Pennel has broken the world record in a career plagued by injuries and hard luck. He went into the 1964 Olympics with a wrenched back and finished eleventh. During the finals in Mexico, he was twice thrown off balance, pole in hand, by a mad flourish of trumpets heralding an awards ceremony. On his second try he cleared what was ultimately the winning height of 17ft. 8½ in., but the jump was nullified because his pole passed under the bar. That pointless rule had already been repealed-effective May 1, 1969; Pennel finished fifth. Nearing...
...plot springs from his search for moral equilibrium. Each of the characters closest to him seems to have found a partial solution. His partner, Blueboy, a shrewd, gamy con man, will play whatever role the whites expect of him with a comic and cynical flourish. His mistress, Kelly Sims, a college-educated chemist, bravely but quixotically banks her hopes for Negro progress on intellect. His eventual wife, Lila, a wise but unlettered country girl, has the "black granite" endurance that was once popularly thought to be the essential quality of the Negro race...
Often, students simply do not know much about the careers they choose or discuss. Their prolonged education may give them a distorted view of post-campus life; unrealistic ideas tend to flourish in isolation from society. To help overcome this, an attempt is being made to bring the outside world into the world of studies, to expose a student to a career without harnessing him to it. Already 136 colleges and universities have instituted work-studies programs that provide undergraduates with a taste of a career ahead of time...
Critical thought cannot flourish in a hierarchical academy whose organization faithfully mirrors the present economic organization of society. Grades can force people to study national income or genetics or Shakespeare, but they militate against the study of a new, humane society. And they foster the illusion that there are no alternatives to an economic system based on contrived, sterile incentives, and operated for the benefit of the few. By ridding ourselves of this academic system, we will be creating a model of an alternative system of work--a system in which people work because they want to, because the work...
...collection of quickie critical pieces done for British and U.S. periodicals shows how robustly a generously endowed intelligence like Burgess's can flourish within the limits of deadline and an even deadlier limitation of space...