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...story proceeds to feature the drop in Soc. Sci. 15b without even mentioning the increase in P&SR 1360. I don't know what conclusions one can draw from these enrollment patterns, but any conclusion that fails to take both of these facts into account is bound to be invalid. Herbert C. Kelman Richard Clarke Cabot Professor of Social Ethics
...Thackeray's Barry Lyndon, like his far greater creation, Becky Sharp, is a social climber at heart. Thackeray's attitude to figures of this kind is a mixture of sympathy and a consciousness that they must not be allowed to succeed. Thus Barry ends his life as a poor invalid in Ireland and Becky as a tattered card sharp making the rounds of tawdry German courts. Yet some sympathy always remains for these characters, either because--like Becky--they are so much brighter and more intelligent than the world around them, or--like Barry--they are so blissfully unaware...
...years later Cheek heard about the planned ordination of women priests in Philadelphia and decided she would rather risk expulsion from the church than relive "the painful humiliation of categorical exclusion." Though the ordinations of Cheek and the ten other women deacons were declared invalid, the issue will not be finally resolved until the Episcopal Convention next September. Meanwhile, Cheek, who lives in Annandale, Va., with her husband, a World Bank executive, is happy about her "freedom in limbo." In November 1974, she became the first woman to celebrate Communion in an Episcopal church in defiance of the diocesan bishop...
...Franklin to Staten Island to negotiate with Lord Howe. On their journey to Philadelphia the two stopped for the night in Brunswick, where at a crowded inn they were forced to share not only a small room but the same bed. Trouble started immediately, as Adams--a self-proclaimed invalid--wanted the window shut and Franklin, claiming it would be healthier, insisted it stay open. Franklin won out, and the two Americans faced the cold together in bed. But years later, in his Autobiography, Adams was to have the final say: "The Doctor then began a harangue upon...
Library officials said yesterday that they do not know of any books lost to holders of the invalid bursars cards. One librarian said the size of the problem will not be apparent for another month