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Signers of the message included Halo Knight '50, Edward F. Burko '50, Donald L. Bornstein '50, Melvin Zurier '50, Richard Wolch '51, and Charles West...
...woodpile, too. One reason why modern man has troubles with his emotions, said University of Illinois Psychiatrist Richard L. Jenkins, stems from the Protestant Reformation, "which increased the number and severity of the moral taboos and denied the certainty of forgiveness through the confessional and penance." A man whose "halo is too tight," said Dr. Jenkins, suffers from too many inhibitions, and may wind up in a doctor's office with an obscure headache...
...blame? Partly the students. Because of the "pious sentiment" that everybody should go to college, "a halo has been cast about the word 'college,' and ... as a consequence there is a blind rush...
...stocky man with a halo of electric white hair, dressed in a light blue suit and tie and white shirt, fiddled nervously with his glasses and papers, looked frequently at his watch. On the dot of 4 p.m., David Ben-Gurion, first Prime Minister of the Jewish state, banged the table with his fist and began to read. As he reached the words proclaiming "the establishment of the Jewish State in Palestine, to be called Israel,"* the audience cheered and wept. In the two hours that remained before sundown, when the Jewish Sabbath would begin, Tel Aviv's jubilant...
...later years somewhat shrill, had the range of a roller coaster. In cutaway coat with stiff collar and ascot tie, Whitehead paced the lecture platform with hands in pockets. Vestigial tufts of white hair fringing a shiny bald pate made him look, said one pupil, "like an angel whose halo had slipped." Now & then Whitehead arrested his pacing to sketch a deceptively simple blackboard diagram of what he called a "prehension" or to explain patiently what he meant by such Whiteheaded concepts as the "form of flux...