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...house roof watching the Trappists (Father Merton included) "employing energies in direct relation to the needs of the hour," the needs being to harvest a crop of tomatoes. These monks, who would put any union-scale group of laborers (or choir Benedictines) to shame with the zeal of their manual labor, would certainly be startled to hear that to become Trappists they had first to be members of an elite...
Photographic techniques often underscore the picture's irony, as when the drill diagrams in an army manual form regiments and march off the page. The English sub-titles are adequate, although German students seem to laugh more than anyone else...
...Harvardman Conant, himself a graduate of the 308-year-old independent Roxbury Latin School, the "first-rate comprehensive high school" is the ideal for America. "More than one foreign observer has remarked that . . . free schools, where the future doctor, lawyer, professor, politician . . . labor leader and manual worker have studied and played together . . . are an American invention. That such schools should be maintained and made even more democratic and comprehensive seems to me to be essential for the future of this republic...
...know the modern world least. "We planned to include a report on a soccer match," sighs Editor Bacci. "But the author, a most brilliant Latin writer, found he did not know enough about soccer. The report will be published as soon as the author, who is now studying a manual on how to play soccer, acquires the technical knowledge to describe what is happening on the field...
...TIME] could know that the actual vote was six to three ... is a mystery . . since the Manual for Courts Martial . , . states: "Only the required percentage of members who concurred in findings of guilty shall be announced...