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...conflict between the sexes with candor and rare understanding," but this is not quite true. The Lovers has candor, all right, and its understanding is as rare as a steak cut from a live cow, but Author Winsor is not a writer who employs her pen as a grub hoe. What she investigates are not concealed roots but visible furnishings: "His body . . . had the ... apparent hardness of polished mahogany." "Her breasts [were] bare and the nipples speckled with silver flakes...
...every member of any University faculty to a post of permanent tenure associate professor or above. Not an associate professor of pediatrics is appointed without Conant's approval. The methods for making permanent appointments vary from faculty to faculty, but in the college Conant began a system of "ad hoe" committees which are set up every time a department is about to make a permanent appointment Separate committees are set up for each appointment and their membership usually includes scholars from other universities along with local faculty members but Conant is always the chairman...
...this question asked. It can't be answered, he feels, and this is because no one is really "running" the University. Each man is doing his own job efficiently, and the University just keeps on going. Conant, through his dominating position on the Corporation, his position on the ad hoe committees, and his chairmanship of faculty meetings, is able to guide the University on its long-range policies. To the undergraduates who question Conant's lack of knowledge on such projects as parietal rules and student porters, a remark he once made to a dean of another college furnisher...
Against this passive resistance, the "theistic philosopher" has a tough row to hoe. His argument is not scientific, and it depends on a very intangible premise-"it is more like the reading of signs in a certain light." This premise Father Turner calls "a sense of contingency," i.e., some vague recognition, however arrived at, of man's "creatureliness"-his dependence on a higher cause or authority...
...last month Ingram stopped at the farm of Aubrey Boswell, a white neighbor. He wanted to borrow a trailer to haul his hay. Ingram saw one of the Boswell children walking toward the tobacco barn carrying a hoe. He walked across the road, he said, and through a field knee-high in corn, looking for Boswell. When he got closer and saw only "three boys," he turned back. He went on down the road and borrowed a trailer from someone else. Later that afternoon, two deputy sheriffs arrested him. One of the "boys," they said, was 17-year-old Willa...