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...fake youthfulness on the golf course and whispers in privacy each day before the shaving mirror and the dressing table. Not merely the black statistics of murder, suicide, alcoholism and divorce betray anxiety (or that special form of anxiety which is guilt), but almost any innocent, everyday act: the limp or overhearty handshake, the second pack of cigarettes or the third martini, the forgotten appointment, the stammer in midsentence, the wasted hour before the TV set, the spanked child, the new car unpaid...
...trustees of an institution." Their lengthy speeches ranged from conventionstyle rhetoric ("it is a significant historical movement -- the wave of the future -- leading to the rise of a responsible alternative to apathy"), to downright poor taste ("We will be done with the beatniks, the puerile purveyors of pornography, the limp-wristed bent-kneed writers. . .") niks, the puerile purveyors of porno-provided by the grown-ups. George Sokolsky, a syndicated columnist who began his journalistic career as editor of a Petrograd newspaper during the Revolution received the award for journalism. Speaking quietly with emotion, he declared: "For forty years I have...
...volunteer who walks into E-3 will not see much violence, because the most violent patients are usually manic-depressive, and get excited only occasionally. I met one 20 year old girl with a quiet sense of humor, who offered me a limp hand in greeting. She seemed depressed. I was surprised when one of the volunteers told me that on his last visit to the ward she had been beating her head against the floor...
With a pulled thigh muscle taped so tight he could not walk without a limp, Blodgett fought his way over 13 ft. in the pole vault, for a third place tie and one and one-half points. Princeton sopho-more Charlie Mitchell won the vault...
With the order of the day-"Go limp if police attempt to move you"-Philosopher-Pacifist Bertrand Russell, 88, laboriously and lengthily prepared for his massive, passive, sit-down demonstration in favor of unilateral British nuclear disarmament. (The new creed: "I'd rather be Red than dead ") When the great day finally came last weekend, the Gandhiose effort was a bit of a flop. When his silent horde of 3,000 arrived outside the Ministry of Defense to squat on the cold pavement, the box formation of 400 bobbies perversely refused to touch a soul. When the Russell forces...