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...Index at Clarke...
...challenge a stately Mercedes. Furthermore, Germans like to play cop to their fellow drivers. Discipline can be instilled, for instance, by an "educational honk" of the horn, and if that is not enough, by a Deutscher Gruss, or German greeting, in which the forehead is tapped with the right index finger, suggesting mental derangement in the other fellow...
...days, Catholic schools were more concerned with virtue than intellectual achievement. We're still concerned with virtue, but we see college as an intellectual unfolding." A philosophy student says that the most stimulating books she read all year were by Jewish Philosopher Martin Buber. The Catholic Index of Forbidden Books is frequently ignored. "Religion permeates everything," says Art Major Kay Kurt, "but you don't hear God, God, God all the time...
...argue for the moral licitness of a birth-control pill. He welcomed Swiss Theologian Hans Küng, one of Europe's most advanced Catholic thinkers, to Boston, and wrote a preface for Küng's latest book, Structures of the Church. Cushing says that the Index of Forbidden Books is "meaningless," and "they should get rid of the whole thing." He wants to drop the promises that non-Catholic partners in mixed marriages must make to raise their children as Catholics; to ask a believing Protestant to "sign on the dotted line" strikes Cushing...
...without any ominous pattern. Some industries, such as chemicals, have had to rescind price increases because the market would not bear them. Though increases outnumber decreases, there have also been numerous price declines, for example in fuel, lumber, industrial pumps, electrical circuits, color TV sets. The wholesale price index, though an imperfect indicator, has stayed flat for many months. The more sensitive index developed by the National Bureau of Economic Research has been rising, and the consumer price index has been rising steadily too - but at a pace that economists consider normal. For the present, no serious inflationary spiral...