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...vision of scholarly and scientific books being reduced to toilet paper was instant grist for Russell Baker's saturnine mill. Observed the humorist in his New York Times column: "Thus is the produce of the most fertile brain placed at the disposal of the masses. The most advanced mind is able to serve the humblest illiterate by being applied to contain a sneeze, to comfort some tender portion of the flesh, to absorb perhaps a dollop of fish grease which has landed on the kitchen floor...
...days as a Phi Mu: "The asininity of 'secret ceremonies'; the moronic emphasis upon 'activities' totally unrelated to-in fact antithetical to-intellectual exploration." There was also "the aping of the worst American traits-boosterism, Godfearing-ism, smug ignorance, a craven worship of conformity." Grist for the Gates mill? Never. "To even care about such adolescent nonsense one would have to have the sensitivity of a John O'Hara, who seems to have taken it all seriously." But not while he was in college; O'Hara never got that...
Admittedly, some of the pathological grist is not just humbug. The shrinks do gear up as though for combat duty during the holidays. Emotional turmoil is easily noticeable and evidently widespread. One pioneering study of Christmas neurosis, published by the University of Utah School of Medicine in the 1950s (and mined ever since by writers assigned to recycle the annual piece on "the holiday blues"), established that as many as nine out of ten people suffer "adverse emotional reactions to Christmas pressures...
...TIME'S 55 years of publication when the editors wished that the magazine could have several covers. This was such a week. The Supreme Court's historic ruling on the Allan Bakke case was at the top of the news, but two other subjects provided the grist for major stories...
...appears very likely that the Faculty will approve the Core. Except for a greater emphasis on history (the result of some still mysterious political maneuverings in the Faculty Council last spring by Bernard Bailyn, Winthrop Professor of History), the original task force proposal has come through the grist mill of Faculty committees relatively intact. And the recent inclusion of various by-pass options into the legislation has subdued the fears of Faculty members who thought the requirements might be too restrictive. Thus, it appears as if Rosovsky's meticulously promoted Core Curriculum will be voted in--if not at this...