Word: lash
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When students lash out against undergraduate professionalism, the readiest object of attack is the monolith of Harvard professionalism, the Harvard Student Agencies. HSA is the embodiment of the student business mentality in the College, and in its headlong rush up the ladder of success it has skipped enough rungs and stepped on enough toes to provide ammunition for the most clumsily mounted offensive...
...shipmates were, always standing in front of the mirror combing their hair. I knew I was right." At Bayard's Studio, a man can get his hair cut and styled, shampooed and reset in about 45 minutes for $3.75. A permanent wave is $12 to $15; lash and eyebrow tint, $1.75; toupees run from $275 to $300. No shaves. No shines...
...time, California's billboard jungle began to bloom with Rafferty signs, and thousands of brochures announced "California schools need the fourth R-Rafferty.'' To Cure Slobbism. Candidate Rafferty's personal formula for curing "slobbism" and the loss of U.S. scientific leadership to "a race of lash-driven atheistic peasants" covered a wide spectrum. He would eliminate fuzzily named "social studies" or "language arts" courses and reinstate plain names, such as history, geography and English. He proposed courses on Communism and free enterprise, and reinstatement of the singing of Columbia, the Gem of the Ocean (which...
Unless you propose to lose the cold war of ideas by default, some kind of national information program seems essential. While I applaud your undergraduate seal to lash out at evil, may I suggest that you might achieve more lasting good if you thought through your ideas a bit more. Cavilling criticism, uninformed although modish, is no substitute for hard and informed thinking in international affairs. The problems faced by USIA should, I feel, be your concern. They include building a large staff of officers trained in their own and their host country's culture, language, history, politics, and information...
...Paris, Sculptor Penalba turns out monumental bronze and stone abstractions that have a considerable range: a cluster of balanced chunks that remotely suggest a huge cactus, a set of rippling spires that seem to move upwards, a hollowed and pierced sculpture that might have been fashioned by the lash...