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...Beat System joins an innumerable legion of schlock paperback gimmicks now decorating cash register counters at the Coop But in contrast to the merry Preppy Handbook and the 101-things to do with-a-cat books. How To smell rotten--like the kid who stole Geometry homework in the 10th grade. The authors seem to believe what they preach arguing earnestly. "It would be a shame it [any college student] should, through simple ignorance of the system, be rejected by every medical school in the world. "Their merciless blugeoning of the language only complicates the crime: "Comparing high school...
...story. If poor John Hinckley Jr. [May 24] had lived in an earlier age, he might have run off to sea, joined the Foreign Legion or emigrated to distant shores. After a while he might have found himself. Unfortunately, hardly a frontier remains for these mixed-up kids who believe themselves to be misfits...
...cannot substitute an abstractable web of explicit beliefs for the whole cloth of our concrete everyday practice." Marianne Moore saw the web her own way: "The mind is an enchanting thing,/ is an enchanted thing/ like the glaze on a/ katydid-wing/ subdivided by sun/ till the nettings are legion,/ Like Gieseking playing Scarlatti." In short, human intelligence is too intricate to be replicated. When a computer can smile at an enemy, cheat at cards and pray in church all in the same day, then, perhaps, man will know his like. Until then, no machine can touch...
Jacob Schiff invested his money in a public education campaign: He believed in his heart that knowledge was the best weapon against prejudice. Carney Gavin has been scrapping for the last 10 years with the same ideal in mind. His legion of volunteers take the idea of public education very seriously; they want to tell everyone about the beauty and mystery and profound importance of Semitic culture. And they believe in the fundamental unity of Semitic peoples. Ultimately, says Gavin, the "survival of the planet" depends on the work being done at the Harvard Semitic Museum...
Oddly enough, veterans' groups did not even know that their status was before the courts. Said Bertram Davis, national judge advocate of the American Legion: "We were taken quite by surprise." The lawsuit was filed by Taxation with Representation of Washington, a nonprofit group set up to fight for tax-code reform. The group went to court to win the right to a tax deduction for its own contributors; it had no desire to take the long-standing right away from veterans' organizations...