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...President Pusey has given the idea of liberal education a needed scrubbing and polishing-especially in a time when the two words are so bandied about, usually in little more than lip service. Addresses, on commencement days especially, often seem so cut from platitures that they are stiff, rigid, lifeless things. Yet during the course of this first year, Nathan Pusey has outlined succinctly the principles on which a graduate could well model the course of his life. Some of the things he has said, we think, bear repetition here...
...expedition lasted more than a year, and at times it seemed impossible to penetrate the jungle over river highways cratered with vicious rapids and broken by precipitous waterfalls. Once it took the explorers a week to advance a mile overland. But finally, with muddy, lifeless faces, they emerged to the "civilization [that] awaited us, with its haste and its rapacity, but also with its power and its glory." Through all the mishaps of his trip, Gheerbrant managed to hold onto his notes. He is a poet and has transformed them into a fascinating and noble book...
...honor the Jews who fell in 1948 to win the Negeb, it was struck by a volley of gunfire. Ephraim Fuerstenberg, the driver, slumped dead; the bus rolled to a stop. Four passengers raced wildly through the door; a second burst spat from a hillock, and they fell lifeless onto the bleached clay. A bottle of cologne broke in the pocket of Hanna Kirshenbaum, 29, mother of three, and mingled the scent of flowers with her blood...
...middle of the film that never wears off. Actor Granger, admirably suited to British drawing-room movies, is badly miscast. And the derring-duo, Taylor and Actress Blyth, seem, in their big storm scene, while all the screen rocks wildly, as beautiful, as smilingly unperturbed and as lifeless as a manikin couple in a sporting-goods-store window...
...where every minority group can participate. Proportional representation, of course, is the main issue in this campaign. But the real issue, now and for the last 12 years, is a moot one that goes beyond PR. This is the question of local political control. The politicians are tired of lifeless, colorless, paper schemes of government. They're tired of putting a rubber stamp on a housing development plan drawn up by some federal expert. They're even tired of the non-partisan efficiency of a city manager...