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...THEREIN lies the tragedy of the situation. For the instant pre-meds have, on the average, more impressive academic records. Some medical schools will try to weed out "draft-dodgers," but, as usual, grades will prevail. Which can only mean that many of the pre-meds who were planning to be doctors, not researchists, will find themselves in February with a fistful of rejections--or clutching tightly the letter of acceptance from one of their "insurance" schools, and being damn grateful they have...
...Your article on hyperkinesis ("Those Mean Little Kids") [Oct. 18] was as welcome as our son's first dose of Ritalin. It is difficult to send a child out into the day, knowing that he will charge headfirst into a multitude of unacceptable activities, as he did yesterday, as he will tomorrow. It is more difficult to know that he will be punished and ridiculed for behavior he cannot easily control. The next time I am told that I'm a nut, my doctor is a quack and my son is a brat who just needs a good...
...counters in skyscraper basements. In the Wall Street area, where building activity and crowding are most intense, lines form in front of hot-dog carts at lunchtime, and a sign in a Broad Street bookstore reads: "Please-no browsing from 12 to 2." Says Architect Percival Goodman: "Size can mean healthy growth or cancer. In New York, it's become cancer...
...volume series will be virtually useless. Reviewing one of the volumes already published, William Dean Howells' Their Wedding Journey (Indiana University; $10), Wilson dismisses the project as "a waste of time and money." He claims that its high price tag and its elaborate textual commentary will mean that only Ph.D. candidates are likely to buy it, while such works should be designed for general readers as well...
...people believe in it, Heimert's verbal rough-housing may seem a flight from even the possibility of self-recognition. His own view of the constant alteration of point-of-view is that it is the most direct form of personal education. "What else can you mean by consciousness expanding," he asks, "than the attempt to comprehend all the life styles in an age?" This is his short-hand way of expressing the old desire for transcendence. A man who is nothing, after all, is potentially everything. "Studying the Puritans or watching you try to figure me out, Sabel...