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...Seattle Times is no more frank than dozens of latter-day women's pages, which deal with feminine vices and afflictions hitherto reported else where in the paper - if at all. Reporting on the ways and means of Detroit's 6,000 prostitutes, the women's page of the Detroit Free Press ranked them from chippies who settle for a good meal and a night on the town, to street walkers working at the beck of pimps and call of drugs, to expensive suburban call girls who keep Fanny Hill-style notes on their clients' bedroom...
Viet Nam is no war for the classic military historian. It offers no vast clash of arms; no divisions sweep and pivot to the grand strategy of latter-day Clausewitzes. Instead there are quick, dirty fire fights-usually on no more than platoon or company scale-set in copses of bamboo and thorn vine so thick that men kill at a range of 10 ft. without having once seen each other. It is a war of leg-shearing booby traps and dung-smeared punji stakes, of professional skill and personal courage. It is also a war that is tailor-made...
...greatest obstacles to a clear examination of the place of teaching fellows at Harvard lies, as we are sure you are both aware, in the confusion of roles that our posiiton naturally encourages. Part-time teachers and part-time students, we have been labeled by a Crimson reporter as "latter-day Minotaurs." Probably we could find a more flattering description for the two lives that we lead; but however we choose to think of ourselves we are likely to continue to suffer from a certain confusion as to our role in the University...
...charge that Mormons are unconcerned with politics and community service is contradicted by the fact that the percentage of Mormons in Congress is at least twice the percentage of Mormons in the U.S., and by the fact that not only the 12,800 missionaries but all Latter-Day Saints try to perfect the community through the home. No other religious group in the country is taught so early in life to respect and support the Constitution...
...tetralogy, West German Novelist Hans Hellmut Kirst explored the soldier's life in Hitler's Wehrmacht, in which he himself had served twelve years, and found a simple point: a dogface is a dogface, even under the sign of the swastika. Asch was a universal type, a latter-day Good Soldier Schweik, the goof-off who confounds every military system...