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...experience than a reason many students have to enter the Peace Corps. A more common but perhaps not unrelated reason is the increasing restlessness which one can observe among able and sensitive students, many of whom have been pursuing their studies under considerable pressure from about the sixth grade onward. At Harvard College, about seven-eighths of the students go on to some form of graduate or professional work; but at present, close to a fifth of the students drop out at some point for a term or more. They may take a job or wander about, possibly get their...
Reverse Drain. Spurring them onward is an economic resurgence that is freeing Scotland from past dependence on shipbuilding, coal and steel and catapulting it into the industries of tomorrow. Thanks to government pump priming and incentives for private investment, almost $1 billion in capital has flowed in since World War II, and Scotland has outpaced the rest of Britain in its industrial growth rate for three years. In Fife, for example, U.S. and British electronics manufacturers have built more than 100 new factories in a California-type complex along the Firth of Forth. Today Scotland turns out more electronic computers...
From this point onward, Bulgakov's novel fans out into a frenzy of manic action in which Moscow is virtually taken over by the Devil and his attendant demiurges. These take their supernatural business for granted, while, in contrast, many plain Soviet citizens are deprived of their Marxist grasp of material reality by the apparition of the Devil, and behave like lunatics. First the poet, then assorted officials, unhinged by their attempts to explain the inexplicable, wind up in the psychiatric center...
...late William S. Baring-Gould, a descendant of the author of Onward Christian Soldiers and an authority on nursery rhymes, took advantage of the new permissiveness to print a collection of the best five-line shockers in the lan guage. It is one of the brightest such collections since Norman Douglas' clandestine compilation of a generation ago. Most of Baring-Gould's specimens are still unprintable by magazine conventions, since...
...California Writer Harry Squires wrote to possible presidential candidates asking what they thought of the curious fact that from 1840 onward, no U.S. President elected in a year ending in zero had lived out his time in the White House. "Dear Mr. Squires," came one reply. "I feel that the future will have to answer this for itself-both as to my aspirations and my fate should I have the privilege of occupying the White House. I daresay, should anyone take this phenomenon to heart, anyone, that is, who aspires to change his address to 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, that most...