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...flee in horror. For all her madness, though, the old girl has a no-nonsense way of getting at life's underlying absurdities. Her crude remarks on sex unleash in Bachelor Andres a flood of feeling he never knew he had. Her chatter about death, "like raising the lid halfway on a multitude of potential horrors," brings him up short against a fact he cannot face, finally drives him insane too. In short, before she kicks off herself, Elisa gives what is left of her country's crumbling upper crust a well-placed foot in its foibles. Though...
Lifting the Lid. Big state universities, under the eyes of legislatures, are often a bit more cautious. The University of Colorado this fall at first prevented a student group from selling the fiercely anti-Lyndon Johnson A Texan Looks at L.B.J., then granted permission after thinking it over. Indiana University refused to discipline three members of the Young Socialist Alliance whose indictments under the state antisubversive law for campus speechmaking, quashed by lower courts, have been appealed by the state to the Indiana Supreme Court. Wayne State lifted a ban against Communist speakers on campus, then retreated and barred...
Berkeley students have blown off the lid. It now remains for them to follow the traditions of schools that have long allowed a wide range of undergraduate freedom. Mainly, such traditions consist of written and unwritten curbs that preserve the good name of the university, fix orderly procedures (booking halls for speakers, for example), and most important, do not obstruct the basic purpose of the university-providing an education...
...committee will restrict itself to Baker's financial exploits outside the Senate and that it will not investigate his dealings with Senate members. The Rules Committee thus continues to act with indifference toward the issue of the misuse of privilege within the Senate. Throughout the year-long investigation, the lid has been firmly shut on this Pandora...
...around on her bed, and for the next 80 minutes they hardly ever leave it-except to hurry over and bounce around on his bed. Sometimes they bounce all over the floor. Sometimes they bounce blindfolded. Once they land somehow in a large wooden chest . . . and discreetly lower the lid...