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Long runs in musicals can be like long runs in stockings. Things get shabby. Dancing becomes listless. There is something a little threadbare about the beat, the book, the cast, the chorus. Even the tickets seem faded...
Nobody in particular--certainly not the Gen Ed Committee--is to blame if the Faculty of Arts and Sciences has remained listless about the program to the point where it does not actively and usefully seek to perpetuate it. As educational theories do, the Redbook theory of General Education has lost not only its excitement but much of its relevance. Gen Ed is now trying to do so many different things at once that it lacks a consistent philosophical justification. It is too departmental to be anti-departmental, too unselective to try to emphasize (as the Redbook wished) the more...
...order. Finally the voting began, and after two ballots and another near-riot, Bob Morgenthau was the convention's choice. Through all the hubbub, Buckley sat impassively under The Bronx's placard. Said he later: "I didn't hear a thing." That evening, Morgenthau delivered a listless acceptance speech to a hall half filled with dead-weary delegates. He spoke with all the enthusiasm of a Georgia sixth-grader reciting the Emancipation Proclamation, and even his ritual invocation of New York Democratic heroes-Al Smith, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Herbert Lehman, Robert Wagner-won only tepid applause...
...York City, where seven dailies scrap for the summer reader's indifferent eye, the news dearth becomes even more crucial. The World-Telegram launched listless crusades against pigeons (they carry lice and disease) and buses (the service is lousy). Amid a welter of daily stories about the Monroe suicide, Hearst's Journal-American still found two pages on which to reproduce a dozen letters that former U.S. President Herbert Hoover got from children. One desperate day, the Herald Tribune, which has been running a daily picture of unrepaired potholes in New York streets, abruptly shifted this feature onto...
...started buying to cover their commitments at levels that would still give them a profit. That sent the market up further-but as prices rose, the bargain hunters began to cut back on their buying, with the result that trading on the New York Stock Exchange declined to a listless 3,110,000 shares on Friday...