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...hours to find a spot. On weekends, raucous teen-agers contribute heavily to a delinquency rate -mostly underage drinking and petty theft-that would do discredit to a city of 25,000. Bumper-to-bumper traffic jams constantly bring back unloving memories of the freeways. At night, a soupy pall of smoke curls from thousands of campfires in the tent city. Cracks Camper Mike Hemel, who fled the smog and traffic of Los Angeles for Yosemite: "It makes you feel right at home...
...Second, some argue that abolition of the 2-S would make education difficult for anybody; without the deferment, the whole learning process would lie under a pall of uncertainty, for no student could be sure of his future. This objection overlooks many things. The present system, with its welter of criteria (class standing, board location, test ranking, etc.) casts a similar pall of uncertainty. Physical disruption of one's education need not be a disadvantage, as anyone who has taken a leave of absence can testify. In fact, the life of a student, neatly partitioned into semesters and marked...
Bloodless Revolution. Today, Britain is in the midst of a bloodless revolution. This time, those who are giving way are the old Tory-Liberal Establishment that ruled the Empire from the clubs along Pall Mall and St. James's, the still-powerful financial City of London, the church and Oxbridge. In their stead is rising a new and surprising leadership community; economists, professors, actors, photographers, singers, admen, TV executives and writers-a swinging meritocracy. What they have in common is that they are mostly under 40 (Harold Wilson, at 50 the youngest P.M. of the century, is referred...
...Historically would resume as it did after the 1962 neutralization of Laos, because "when you bring the Communists in, you have one party using coercion as a means of influencing the people and the other party has to resort to the same." He settled back again and lit a Pall Mall...
...remained for the 20-minute-long fifth movement, which one critic called "among the very greatest things that Mahler has left us," to lift the pall of futility. The doom-laden thump of a muffled drum, an idea that Mahler conceived one day when he heard the drums of a funeral procession passing his Manhattan apartment, intrudes repeatedly, driving back the forces of light. Then, unfurling slowly, the divergent strands of the opening themes are resolved in a finale of radiant transfiguration, ending as serenely as oncoming sleep - or death. "The Tenth" says Cooke, "holds the secret of Mahler...