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...Overrun by Administrators. Goodman is best known for his writings on the plight of modern youth. Growing Up Absurd argues that today's problem children are the fault of a society that offers them squalid ideals and dull jobs. The behavior of juvenile delinquents and the beats, wayward as it is, is in fact a wholesome protest against adult mores. Writes Goodman. "Our society cannot have it both ways: to maintain a conformist and ignoble system and to have skilled and spirited men to run that system with...
Impossible, replied the Colonial Office, at least for the time being. Said Repetto: "If the island is left uninhabited too long, it will be overrun by rats, and the calves we left behind will turn into wild beasts...
...Saxon pirates overrun England...
...summer vacation from Harvard visiting the sculptress and her diplomat husband in Europe. Carving the wooden altarpiece for a Belgian church, Mrs. Wiley portrayed the future U.S. President as a guardian angel hovering over the kneeling nun. By the time she had finished. Belgium was overrun by the Nazis, and the work was sent for safekeeping to the Vatican, which passed it on to one of the city's more than 400 churches...
...Three times he was wounded and knocked down. The third time he didn't get up." Before he fell, Gabriel radioed a final message to the U.S. base at Danang seven miles away: "Under heavy attack from all sides. Completely encircled by enemy. Ammunition expended. We are being overrun...