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...Manhattan clan, headed by a Guys and Dolls-type gypsy, Herschel Bernardi, needs to raise an $8,000 bridal fee to purchase a spitfiery West Side Story-type gypsy girl (Chita Rivera) for his son. The girl is so keen for the match that she stages a bajour (Romany for swindle) and cons the widow for the money. A subplot has the widow's daughter living in with the Bernard! bunch to research a Ph.D...
Military worries aside, students anticipating graduate or professional training--especially in law or medicine--are often reluctant to postpone by twelve months the completion of their education. And with competition for fellowships increasingly keen, graduate students in academic fields cannot always be certain of obtaining the necessary funds...
...plan you propose instead may make slightly more enlightened specialists. But the mere development of a keen mind and the more mastery of technical vocabularies will fail to meet the purpose of general education. For without some more fundamental and human goal, such skills will not make better men. Robert Herewitz...
There is naturally competition for the scholarships available, and it is particularly keen for scholarships to the United States. Regardless of what a refugee or his party may think of U.S. policy toward the liberation movements, the great majority of refugee students prefer to go to the U.S. and many have a strong aversion toward study in China or the Soviet Union. Numerous students have refused (against their party's wishes) to go to Communist countries and some have even switched political parties to avoid being sent. But because the American scholarship program, which is run by the U.S. Embassy...
...academic work and the special merit of Harvard in fostering it, then it becomes highly desirable that more Harvard men be academicians. Indeed, it may represent a scandalous squandering of Harvard's resources that four-fifths of its graduates do not become scholars, especially in view of the keen demand for academicians...