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...Literature that are not deemed useful to society. As originally drafted, moreover, it suggests that all high school graduates be allowed to enter a university. Some 75% of them would be eliminated through competitive exams after two years, thus implicitly encouraging students to pursue technical training. The protesters also object to a provision that would allow more than 30% of the councils that control universities to be composed of nonuniversity delegates, many of them Socialist and Communist union representatives...
Critics like Stewart Brand, creator of the Whole Earth catalogues, object to metric for the very reason that most scholars favor it: the ease of converting one unit to another-say, kilometers to meters-by simply multiplying or dividing by tens. Says Brand: "You can't visualize a tenth very well, but you can imagine a quarter or a half of something." Adds Seaver Leslie, founder of Americans for Customary Weight and Measure: "The metric system is imposed rationality...
...consummate example of Harvard sex intellectualized into gobbledy gook comes in a 1973 short story called "Innocence," by Harold Brodkey '51. As the story begins a Harvard senior named Wiley looks at the object of his lust and states, "To see her in sunlight was to see Marxism die." Naturally, when Wiley lures this apparition into his room and under his covers, it is the occasion for a summa cum laude display of erudition...
Lawrence R. Lincoln, another Beckwith resident, included his own message on the position: "I object to noise during exam periods. On a recent morning I was awakened at 7:54 a.m. I hope that you live in a quiet neighborhood. Ms Wadr...
Purists may object to the musical cuts and to the startling extension of a couple of ensemble numbers. But such considerations are minor when weighed against the film's headlong vitality and passion. Zeffirelli has captured Verdi's force in a rare, powerful way. -By Michael Walsh