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What passions flicker beneath Georgie's grey flannel mortarboard? As the reader meets him, he is preparing to go horseback riding. A shrewd old groom suggests a placid bay, but Georgie rejects his advice and takes a balky black gelding. Of course he is thrown. No student of women's-magazine prose can fail to understand the symbolic significance of this, and it has nothing to do with horseback riding. The groom (servants are as clever as presidential speechwriters in this sort of fiction) is Fate, and Georgie's pettish assertion of masculinity means that...
Along Oxford's narrow streets crowds cheered ''Good old Charlie!" In the Town Hall, Oxonians enthusiastically applauded the little man in mortarboard and scarlet gown, upstaging his seven fellow honorary degree winners, including U.S. Secretary of State Dean Rusk. But only after he had been handed his Doctor of Letters degree for having given "the greatest pleasure to so many people for so many years'' did British-born Comedian Charlie Chaplin, 73, relax in a toothy grin. "I would have needed a heart of cast iron not to be moved," said he. An exile from...
...divine plan for the good society," and energetic Ethel Skakel Kennedy, 33, mother of seven majoring in home economics, was delighted to receive her first honorary degree as Doctor of Humane Letters at the Benedictine St. Bernard College in Cullman, Ala. Done up in black gown and mortarboard, the Attorney General's wife then told 4,000 guests about the recent White House dinner for Nobel laureates. Everything was going along smoothly, recalled Ethel, until she overheard Chemist Linus Pauling saying: "Great minds are like movie actors or sports figures-they gather together like a clan. I recognize...
...Being is Tillich's replacement for the old symbol of "salvation," and he can take off his theologian's mortarboard and write about it with evangelical passion. "We should not be too worried about the Christian religion, about the state of the Churches, about membership and doctrines, about institutions and ministers . . . [These] are of no importance if the ultimate question is asked, the question of a New Reality . . . We should worry more about [this] than about anything else between heaven and earth. The New Creation-this is our ultimate concern; this should be our infinite passion . . . In comparison...
...Jack Russell, 250-pound president of the Cleveland City Council and one of America's last--and most competent--political ward bosses, came to Harvard this week to teach "the kids" a few lessons in practical politics and, incidentally, to have his picture taken in a mortarboard, standing next to the Harvard drum. But the drum had already gone to New Haven...