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...muddled thinking of the pseudo-intellectuals . . . should no longer be revered or allowed to go unchallenged . . . Such an article, with its overtones and implications, could patriotically be emulated by other great magazines which both mold and reflect public opinion...
This statistical equilibrium is symbolic of the whole tone of the house. It has very little special character of its own, yet it strives to maintain President Lowell's original ideal of a House as "the college in microcosm." It does not try to mold its members into either gentlemen or scholars, but lets its members mold it and themselves...
Last November's elections showed the folly of letting the "liberal" tail wag the Democratic dog, he continued. By trying to mold the Democratic Party to their own image, "extremists who call themselves liberals" had alienated Southern voters and lost the election for two "great Americans"-Stevenson and Sparkman. If the liberals continued their efforts "to drive the South out of the party," he warned, the Democrats would suffer "the most disastrous defeat in American political history" in next year's congressional elections...
...project. What differentiates it from money-raising functions like the student-movie business is this: by ballooning itself to the point where it tries to include everyone in the College, the Weekend smothers the under graduate's social freedom, and casts him, at least for one weekend, into the mold of Joe College, desperately trying to have an organized good time...
...most memorable. Snorkel-equipped, but with its periscope accidentally shattered, U-977 stayed submerged-and moved blind-for a record 66 days. Each of the two engines broke down in turn and had to be repaired. Diesel fumes and smoke choked the crew. The bulkheads dripped with green mold. Short of soap and wearing wet clothes washed in salt water, the men broke out in rashes and boils. With half of its fuel gone and only one-third of the trip completed, U-977 finally surfaced. Thereafter, except for a few anxious moments, the South Atlantic crossing was pretty much...