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Leaf for leaf, the iviest campus in the Ivy League may well be the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia. For decades, this ivy masked a nagging inferiority complex. Outsiders mistook Penn for a state university; insiders yearned to rename it Franklin after Ben, its patron. Though blessed with great graduate schools, Penn was cursed with inert trustees, inept presidents and indolent rejects from Yale and Harvard. "The plaything of the Main Line," Penn dreamed of past glory while dying of the slums that choked its campus and strangled its spirit...
...fault, but no one could convince suspicious Frenchmen that the deaths were not caused by third-degree tactics. Paris has also gotten a little tired of the overzealous use of submachine guns issued during the past Algerian terrorist outbreaks. When a panther escaped from a circus, a flic mistook a shadow for the beast and in error plugged a passerby. Another ludicrously chopped up a cow, broken loose from a slaughterhouse, with his tommy...
...viewers, accustomed to soaking up all the bottled pap that TV offers without thinking, may soon be taking for gospel such flawless modern history as this: "Premier Souvanna Diem came to power in 1958 when his halfbrother, Prince Song Phoami, was assassinated by his uncle, Prince Phim Dim, who mistook him for his son, Prince Stant Phoami...
When Idaho's Senator Frank Church began his first term of office at the age of thirty-two visitors around the Capitol occasionally mistook him for a page boy. Now, six years later, he looks more than six years older. His black hair has thinned slightly and is lightly flecked with grey. But much of his youthful appearance remains. Dressed in sneakers and old clothes to help put the finishing dabs on a large entry in the Quincy Holmes Arts Festival, he was mistaken more than once for an undergraduate...
...many by observing its effects in others, many more by living in a cultural climate fraught with Freudian ideas. Familiarity may breed some contempt: the film at times seems quaintly elementary. Furthermore, no competent modern psychiatrist accepts the theory that most neuroses take a sexual provenance. Freud, like Columbus, mistook the new world he discovered for something it was not. Nevertheless, it was Freud who saw the way when all the world was blind, and who followed it where all men feared to go. This picture is a tribute much too long delayed...