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...shudders to think of the gory details to which we might be subjected if the President should contract athlete's foot or. heaven forbid, the seven-year itch...
...tentative and experimental," notes Anthropologist Mead, "is now quite as directly functional as the life of a weaver's apprentice during the Middle Ages." The resulting "college education syndrome" puts immense pressures on teenagers. Some kids occasionally rise at 3 a.m. to study-one Washington mother has to forbid her girls to get up before 6. And so eager are kids to find colleges that when a wag at New Canaan High posted an invitation for interviews with the admissions officer of "Whasamatta College," five students signed...
...since the Ivies' stand last December was based on the principle that no one should forbid their athletes to compete in meets, it seems possible that the postponement will only put off an inevitable collision between the NCAA and some of its members...
...packaged, labeled, or delivered before the world as winner of the Nobel Prize for literature. People might under stand him then. But whether he likes it or not, whether he deserves it or not the award is his; and Sartre, unfortunately knows it. He has been labeled (God forbid), and it is only an act of pretension to deny that it has meaning and not to have the humility to accept this fact. Why must the absurd standards he sets for himself be our standards for judging his work? If he is only writing for him self, why does...
...passed narrowly last year by the legislature, outlaws racial discrimination in public housing and large private apartments. Opponents of the measure have placed on the ballot an initiative constitutional amendment." Proposition 14 which would not only nullify the Rumford Act and other equal housing ordinances, but would also forbid the legislature to pass such laws again. The State Supreme Court, one of the nation's most liberal, claims that the initiative raises "grave constitutional questions," but refuses to rule on the proposition before the election...