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Escape from Man. In the beginning, the rabbit in the hutch, the domestic pigeon, the hearth cat and the farm dog all agree that freedom, especially freedom from man, will bring total happiness. They escape to the forest, but as time goes on, their happiness wears thin. It is the rabbit that gives words to the principle which ultimately wins them all and becomes a rumor in the forest: renunciation of self, even of personal freedom and of life if necessary, to help establish "that law of love which should govern all the world, prevent it from shriveling like...
Deny a people the freedom of the Bill of Rights, and security becomes slavery, vocation forced labor, privacy concealment, the family a hutch for mass breeding, the school an outpost, of the state, social intelligence a technique of rationalization, art and literacy weapons to impose conformity, the person a subject...
Lashed to a froth by the baleful cries of ticket-hungry students, the Inter-House Dance Committee is hopefully exploring every rabbit hutch for a possible solution to the frustrating shortage of space for the Yale weekend dances. But their mightiest efforts have been snarled in the sticky web of a divided and slow University Hall chain of command that hampers a real desire for cooperation and threatens to taint the weekends of many date-laden, but ticketless students...
Next time it should be a bunny that sleeps with a Hutch man, but this week it was only a wee timorous beastie who made a bedfellow of Leverett House Lennie...
...Australia, on another good-will tour, Sir Thomas kept the Prime Minister waiting for an appointment and referred to the acoustical improvements in Brisbane's finest concert hall as a "rabbit hutch." The ensuing fan mail, he admitted, "was so various in invective that it might have been written by Elizabethan poets. . . . I am a peaceful and harmless man. . . . I simply can't understand why people are always going for me. It's positively a pathological attitude. People see Beecham and at once their backs...