Word: halfe
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...outside. The graduate student section man, perhaps stuffier still, who wants to grow up to be that professor--he's an outsider. That fellow who studies Greek classics for what seems like 12 hours a day in October and November, and the thick-armed house football jock who says, half in jest, that everyone in SDS should be shot--they're outsiders. The SDSer who talks at you for hours without a smile when you wish he would go away--he becomes an outsider. Your parents, your president, your old buddy who didn't go away to college. You start...
...generally is more mature, has had more leadership and management experience and is more capable of accepting responsibility than men hired directly out of college. Nationwide, less than five per cent of eligible college students take Army ROTC. (At Harvard the number who take ROTC is less than one-half of one per cent of has college enrollment.) Yet out of this five per cent comes 10 per cent of our Congressmen, 15 per cent or our ambassadors, 24 per cent of our state governors, and 28 per cent of business leaders earning over $100,000 per year...
...financial defenses in advance, the major nations might increase their reserves of monetary gold. South Africa is sitting on a horde of $1.25 billion in gold, waiting for a crisis that would lift its price. But the South Africans seem willing to make a deal. They would probably sell half of their gold to the official market at $35 per oz., if they could also get permission to sell the other half at a higher price on the free market. At the same time, the world's monetary authorities would put a floor under the gold price by agreeing...
Rule of Force. Yet anyone who tries to decipher Tango as some sort of Iron Curtain cryptogram will miss half the fun and pertinence of the play. The socio-intellectual turbulence with which it stirs blows through all curtains, East or West. Arthur begins his counterrevolution with a stunning proposal-of marriage. Instead of just sleeping with his girl Ala as she expects, he wants her to marry him, and in church, of all places. He even asks for Grandma's blessing. She gives it without doffing her baseball...
Obsolete Communism: The Left-Wing Alternative turns out to be a surprisingly literate book, considering that it was written in only five weeks. Only half jokingly, the authors note: "The publishers do not seem to be bothered by the fact that their cash will be used for the next round of Molotov cocktails...