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...think the Harvard administration will get a black eye. As Harvard alumni across the country and around the world find out, I think there will be hell to pay," said Ormand de Kaye, a member of the committee who did not attend the meeting...
...these allegations could possibly be true. But Hillary would still bear much of a resemblence to Tricky Dick. To be a monster truly in Nixon's image, she would also have to bomb the hell out of Hanoi next Christmas, using large bombers instead of strategic fighters to insure maximum civillian casualties. She would have to expose an almost inhuman lack of compassion by attempting to justify the slaughter of unarmed, non-violent students by the National Guard, as Nixon did after the Kent State massacre...
...American journalists. On the occasion of William Jennings Bryan's death, Mencken compared him to a "dog with rabies," and once described Supreme Court Justice and Harvard son Oliver Wendell Holmes as having a "natural distaste and contempt for civillians, and a corollary yearning to heave them all into Hell." Few individuals, and almost no politicians, should be immune from mockery...
Well, do we need the ballast of expert opinions and attributions to inform and justify our tastes in art or literature or music or--in the late 20th century--in all the electronic entertainment available at the push of a remote-control button? The snap answer is, hell no, we don't. But that is not really true. Aesthetics, for all the millions of words that have been written on the subject, remains an inexact science. We cannot say why a painting once supposed to be by Rembrandt loses face when its connection with the master is disputed or disproved...
...ahead. According to a recent poll, more than 12% of today's teenagers (and 40% of those in high-crime neighborhoods) carry a weapon for protection. Unlike post-Vietnam criminals, who feared prison, police and peers and took care to avoid arrest and notoriety, this new teenage horde from hell kills, maims and terrorizes merely to become known or even sometimes for no reason at all. These teens have no fear of dying and no concept of living. DANIEL R. COBURN Morristown, New Jersey...