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...student opinion from your columns and from casual discussions, I realize that quite a few students feel that too much fuss is being made about a mere ritual of words--words that will satisfy "politicians" but that have no possible educational consequences, while other students feel that it is hopeless for any one institution, or even group of institutions, to take a stand on principle against the inevitable. (There are still other students who feel that they should be free to accept loan money under the Act without interference from professors whose scruples stand in the way; this...
...cell is bare except for the customary simple furniture, the hopeless messages from past prisoners scrawled on the walls and an overhead light that (perhaps like reason or the world itself) is naggingly off-center. The prisoner's name is Cincinnatus C., and he is under sentence of death for a misdeed that is not described; he only suspects that his crime is "opacity"-that stubborn, unknowing refusal to bare his soul which has always enraged a man's neighbors and masters. If the literary shades of other prisoners seem to be sharing the cell...
Chances for passage of the Kennedy-Clark bill to remove the loyalty provision from the National Defense Education Act "are by no means hopeless," Senator John F. Kennedy '40, predicted yesterday, "providing that there is a broad expresison of views not only from educational administrators, but also from students and student groups...
...through the House (229-201) with his effective television appeal (TIME, Aug. 17). Few old hands on Capitol Hill believed that Conference Chairman Kennedy could close the wide gaps between the two without losing control of his committee, letting the bill go back to both houses for another hot, hopeless battle...
...sympathy to Letter Writer L. J. Barnett of Larchmont, N.Y. [July 20]. I also get mad at TIME. But I am such a hopeless addict that I recently filed a five-year subscription to the rag. I suggest to Mr. Barnett that we organize a "TIME Addicts Anonymous" society...