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Chalmers, a proponent of coed housing, spoke on the informal educational espects of the College. "I think all of us now realize there is a sort of iceberg effect between education in the classroom and that large bulk that takes place outside the classroom," he said...
...some ways the news resembles an iceberg. Each week only a fraction of what happens possesses importance and immediacy enough to capture both the mind and the headlines. This week TIME opens its survey of the week's news with a description of the pride and affection that marked the celebrations for the Moon Voyagers. Then follows the mystery that cloaks the Green Beret murder case in Viet Nam and the controversy of the Ted Kennedy case -where questions and speculation continue. Two violent conflicts also are dissected: one in Northern Ireland and the other on the Sino-Soviet...
...concentrate on its conclusion, though, may be to do an injustice to the rest of the book. For it is constructed very much like an iceberg--in order to support a tiny prominence of prophecy and speculation, the narrative spends most of its time examining the submerged bulk of past history. Besides her other gifts, Doris Lessing, is at all times, the lady novelist--and a good one, too. If her sentences sometimes seem too explicitly diagnostic in an effort to delineate complex emotions, she nonetheless never loses a dark, undercut ting humor. Her cynical view of society's absurdities...
...student revolt begins at Harvard, Galbraith said, "No one at Harvard will be trapped by the view--permissible to J. Edgar Hoover, perhaps, but to few others--that trouble is purely the work of self-motivated agitators. Like the tip of an iceberg, the agitators are ever only the visible part of the larger mass...
...even more troubles. About 950 miles from the starting line, the car simply died. It took nearly a day to revive it. On the road, 200 Ibs. of ice had to be carried to cool the battery. Says M.I.T.'s Jim Martin: "It was like driving an iceberg." Then, at Victorville, Calif., the car's engine idled at twice its normal r.p.m.s, blew up on its block, and had to be towed 130 miles to the Pasadena finish line. It got there a full 37 hours before Caltech's Volkswagen bus limped into Cambridge. But the Caltech...