Word: indiana
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...electoral votes but disbands the college itself, provides for automatic election of any candidate receiving 40% of the electoral vote. If none gets that percentage, there would be a runoff election between the two leading candidates. A more realistic approach to the problem is offered in the Senate by Indiana Democrat Birch Bayh, who says there is "no more pressing business facing the nation," is pushing for the total abolition of the Electoral College system. Presidential elections would be decided by popular vote only. Whether any of the resolutions succeeds or not depends on the support of Richard Nixon. Predicts...
...Beethoven-loving American expatriate who now lives in France, Legman has written five books on aspects of erotica, and once worked as a bibliographer for Indiana University's Kinsey Institute for Sex Research. Bulky as it is, Rationale of the Dirty Joke is only the first of two volumes he has written on the subject-and, as Legman warns in his preface, the "cleaner" one at that. Legman's approach to his subject is at once serious, scholarly and slightly disquieting. Any reader who grazes beyond the italics is likely to think twice before telling another dirty joke...
...Vance Hartke of Indiana left the moderate fold for Long, a fellow friend of oil interests...
Plump Edwardians wander with suave decadence out of Aubrey Beardsley's world, and creatures consume them selves with Steinbergian detachment. There are silk screens from Warholville and numbers from Indiana. Psychedelia explodes and art nouveau swirls in the most unexpected places. Corridor doors are open on surrealist nightmares, Freudian symbolisms and early movies-all combined in a swiveting, swirling splurge of phantasmagoria, puns, pastiches and visual non sequiturs...
...trustees of the college have studied the complaints against Johns, who holds a divinity degree and a Ph.D. from Indiana University, and repeatedly voted their confidence in him. Despite the student complaints, he feels that the controversy on campus is educational in itself. "Peaches and cream doesn't bring dialogue," he says, "but confrontation does. Polarization of ideas is what education is all about-it makes people aware of their own thinking...