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...taken acts of peculiar genius over the last five months by Sir Sydney Caine, outgoing Director of the LSE, and his allies, to bring the unquestioned authority of the School Administration into a state of seige. Their actions have had a common theme: contempt for the student's position in the university, or at best, disbelief that worthwhile changes could be brought about by "unofficial means." Thus last fall, when students wanted to ask Director-designate Walter Adams some well-founded questions about his administration of University College, Rhodesia, the LSE authorities stuck to the letter of their regulations...
...intensely loyal readers, many of whom are all but illiterate and most of whom read nothing else, the Courier has developed a peculiar journalese that wavers between first-grade primer and Time magazine style. Efforts to render complex political shenanigans comprehensible lead to headlines like "Who's Doing What to Whom in Phenix City?" An interview with a candidate for the Democratic nomination for governor last year contained this passage: "He sprinkled the crackers into his soup. Not too many crackers, and not too few. It was a middle-of-the-road sort of sprinkle...
Deadlier than the Male. Bulldog Drummond has led a charmed life, alas. In the early '20s, when he first came to public attention in the novels of Sapper (H. C. McNeile), he was an overblown Blimp who hated "Bolshies" and took peculiar pleasure in flogging "Hebrews." In 1929, the cur was portrayed by Ronald Colman as a sort of homey Holmes - a friendly legal beagle who spent more time rolling his big sad eyes at the lady customers than he did hounding down the villain. In Deadlier than the Male, the adaptable Drummond shows up as the type...
...Wilma Rudolph, who didn't respond. In his strait-laced fashion, he married a cocktail waitress and tried to get her to adopt Muslim ways, but it didn't take; he charged in his divorce suit last year that her slacks were too tight. And in his peculiar, affecting way, Clay childishly dreams of lovely Edens: "The type of house I like would be all glass on the front and on one side, like those modern motels you see-Holiday Inns, and I want nothing but goooooooold carpets. When the average person walks...
...Garrison's evidence? He refused to say, but-in what must rank as one of the most brilliant non sequiturs of the year -referred to a pleasure trip that Ferrie had made to southern Texas a few hours after the assassination: "We felt that it was rather peculiar that a man would suddenly take a trip to south Texas when everybody else in the country was home watching television." In fact, a former staff member of the Warren Commission disclosed that Ferrie, whose name came up only briefly in the 26 volumes of testimony, had been thoroughly checked...