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There were several reasons for the tepid response of the delegates. It is clear the idea of a national service corps lacks the glamour and adventure of the Peace Corps. Innoculating babies in a Philadelphia slum, albeit a desperately needed service, is just not the same thing as innoculating babies in Lagos, Nigeria...
...even if the national service corps never achieves the glamour of the overseas Peace Corps, nor the controversial role some students would like to see, it can become a catalyst for local volunteer action and a publicizer of presently ignored injustice. It would be unfortunate indeed if the Administration chooses to sacrifice the enabling legislation to the fiscal conservatives without a good fight...
...even sports a toga that looks as if it had been designed by Emilio Pucci rather than the Emperor Hadrian. A spokesman for the Old Lady of Threadneedle Street groped for the right words to express the bank's official comment, came up with, "She's a glamour puss. We are really with...
...need to get more glamour and suspense back in the readers. The kids are tough little creatures. They learn to read, not because their parents or teachers want them to, but because they are interested enough to go on to the next page. They used to read excitedly about Hansel and Gretel pushing their grandma into the oven,* but the kids didn't go around afterward pushing their own grandmothers into the oven...
When a boy from Berkeley joins the Peace Corps to teach young Ghanaians, that's idealism with a touch of glamour; when he signs up to teach in Harlem, that's plain idealism. When a Kansas nurse helps Pakistani psychotics, that's useful and also exotic; when she helps Navajo neurotics, that's just useful. Last week the Kennedy Administration approved the blueprint for a project abundantly idealistic and daringly short of glamour: the domestic Peace Corps, probably to be known by the undramatic title of National Service Corps...