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Chicken Feed. In fact, though few would admit it, most Congressmen welcomed the return to Washington for at least a few days a week. Not only could they thus find a respite from the grind of campaigning, but could also explain to constituents-at every opportunity-that urgent affairs of state demanded their presence in the Capital...
...believe that life is graded like a test, and that if one does one's homework, one will pass. He believes that his mythical titled parents are on watch and will claim him as their own once he passes the test of haute Kultur. He becomes a culture grind, slaving ardently at French cooking, memorizing the Almanack de Gotha, and mentally building a pyramid of ancient trivia...
Editor Zweig has only one taboo: he refuses to run any articles with an ideological ax to grind. "Readers can take our ideas and fit them into their own ideologies," he says. "We are in the rationality business...
...that in the main effectively described a sick subculture. Directed by Roger Corman, a cut-rate master of the macabre who seems to work better with spiders than he does with actors, The Wild Angels is a sleazily synthetic retread that will probably take a long skid through U.S. grind houses. However, the film may well make a mark in Europe...
...from being a grind, Daisy sings in a Lutheran church choir, takes lessons in both voice and piano. Her father, who died in 1964, was a composer, conductor and pianist. Her mother teaches piano, and her brother Walter topped his class at Columbia University in 1962. Mrs. Hilse says, not immodestly, that Daisy's scholarship "just comes naturally...