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The letter of April 24 defending Prof. Samuel Huntington against the charge of "war criminal" displays 29 famous signatories, strings a few pieties about academic freedom-and doesn't muster up a single rational argument. Not one. Now, slogans and stickers from PL may not be the most genteel approach...
On one level, Director Dick attempts to analyze the instability the modern temper. Supercivilized Martin airily accepts his wife's peccadilloes, and in the next second goes round bend, hurling Honor to the floor beating her. On another level, A Severed Head is a comedy of - but they are...
LIVING together in a large white house north of the Common, ten Harvard and M.I.T. Catholic men are trying hard to make themselves holy and glorify God by working. Leading disciplined, intensely religious lives, they are trying to prove that a few young people still believe in God, good manners...
Officially Elmbrook has no house rules. There is tacit agreement, however, to maintain a minimum of noise, to wear coats to dinner, and generally to observe home manners. "We like to keep a family atmosphere," Richard F. Collier '72, one Elmbrook resident, said.
As Curtis Bok said long ago, "In the whole history of law and order, the longest step forward was taken by primitive men when, as if by common consent, the tribe sat down in a circle and allowed one man to speak at a time." The current insane abandonment of...