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Alma Mater, hail to thee...
...Follies, a mediocre musical, tried and tested by formula and dipped in commercialized nostalgia, appears on Broadway, and you hail it as a breakthrough composition [May 3]. I am intellectually affronted by this kind of premature journalism, which offers categorical answers to questions not even raised...
...McGuires have returned to Copenhagen, where he translates technical papers for an electronics firm, polishes his near-perfect Danish, and hopes to become a Danish citizen and get a teaching job. "As a person I am just happy," he says. "We Americans suffer from a tendency to hail what is one hundred percent, but nothing is ever one hundred percent, and life is absurd, and that is the way it should...
Alma Mater, hail to thee...
...idea of violence is not all that remote; in the past month, some 100 persons have died as a result of electoral quarrels. Nevertheless, Indira does not shrink from the huge, open-air rallies that are the mainstay of an Indian campaign. In Hyderabad last week, a hail of shoes and stones was aimed at the rostrum as she spoke. None of the missiles struck her, and Indira, unshaken, inquired: "Has someone opened a new sandal shop in Hyderabad? If so, he must be making a fortune...