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...American grain. The glorification of the criminal is not the product of new films like Super Fly but ancient legends like Billy the Kid. Drug abuse did not flower with the poppies of Viet Nam; it escaped the ghetto in the early '60s and spread to the American midstream. As for authority figures, it takes no sociologist to realize that institutions and establishments, from universities to Senate subcommittees, had been ossifying for decades...
...December I was always very sullen with Barrie. His jokes annoyed me, his endless anecdotes seemed pointless, and the incessant cold, inside and out, of a London winter felt more chill with him. I grumbled about it, I cut off his rantings in midstream, I complained about everything when I was with...
Watson's note, sent to IBM managers, warned that "too many of our people are beginning to exceed the bounds of common sense in their business attire." Because "the midstream of executive appearance is generally far behind the leading edge of fashion," he continued, modish threads might well offend potential IBM customers...
...customers drop a pair of 100-yen coins into a slot on a TV set in their rooms, the result is instant pornography, often in glorious Fujicolor. The odds are against tuning in at the beginning of the movie-the tape runs continuously. But picking up a show in midstream makes little difference; one popular pinkie simply follows an energetic coed as she hops in and out of a series of bedrooms...
...deans do not contend that all their students should be deferred. "That would be utterly immoral," says Berkeley Graduate Division Dean Sanford S. Elberg. But the universities argue that, whenever possible, students should be called before they enter grad school or after receiving their degrees-and not in academic midstream. Indicating the extent of the schools' concern, the Association of American Universities and the Council of Graduate Schools have petitioned the Defense Department to spell out precisely how many graduate students will be drafted. Professors at many universities are busy writing their Congressmen, friends in the Pentagon and even...