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...catchall for the rejects, materialists and rootless pleasure seekers. Naturally our faults would be grossly magnified there. Most teen-agers are interested in much more. True, we have little respect for authority, but that is because authority has failed to earn our respect. Since the adult world, in its headlong worship of money, has failed to give us worthwhile goals, we have to establish...
Forces Foreseen. Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill was an intensely human hero. He was easily moved to rage or tears; he delighted in mischief and rushed headlong into many an action that he was later to regret. If he was an Elizabethan in deed and spirit, he was implacably Victorian in his ideals and dedi cation to duty. When he became Prime Minister at the nadir of his nation's fortunes in 1940, he was 65-older than any other Allied or enemy leader. He had held more Cabinet posts than any other Briton in history; he had seen more...
...first of a bountiful crop of rice, potatoes and beans, estimated at 30% above last year's level, began to appear on grocery shelves, easing Brazil's chronic food shortage and starting stabilization of food prices after years of headlong advance...
After a series of inconclusive pre-season skirmishes, Harvard leaps headlong into Ivy League wrestling competition in the IAB this Saturday against Cornell, the tyrant of the league last year. The Redmen defeated all six of their Ivy opponents last season, blasting Harvard in the process...
Many professors, says Gardner, think that "students are just impediments in the headlong search for more and better grants, fatter fees, higher salaries, higher rank." Catering to these professors, universities often relieve them of almost all teaching. "Needless to say, such faculty members do not provide the healthiest models for graduates thinking of teaching as a career." Gardner insists that professors and college officials must "behave as though undergraduate teaching is important." Typically, they might emulate the salary incentives and status benefits that a few worried universities, such as U.C.L.A., are offering to faculty members who are notably engrossed with...