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Fahrenheit 451, or How I Stopped Burning Books, is a plug for Library Week. Librarians -- half a smile, coughdrops, their hair restrained in buns -- should champion it. The movie has that peculiar fate because Truffaut strated using Ray Bradbury material and didn't know when to stop...
Becoming a Christian may be primarily an act of commitment and faith, but it also means joining a lifelong sport with its own peculiar rules for success...
While denunciation of government policy is cautiously avoided by college faculties, disillusion with government policy is the genetic issue. If it were not for the peculiar nature of the Vietnam war, Hovde suggested, Columbia would not have acted. "It did not come up in the Korean War," under a similar Selective Service setup, he said...
...selection by the legislators last week hardly came as a surprise. Both the U.S. and the Georgia Supreme Courts upheld Georgia's peculiar law allowing the state legislature to elect the Governor if the voters failed to give any candidate more than 50% of the vote; there had been little question what the body would do. With a Democratic majority of 231 to 28 in the legislature's two houses, the legislators voted 182 to 66 to seat Democrat Maddox...
...Tomorrow: A timid administration, a fanatic alumni, and a complacent student body caused this year's Bicker revolt to fail, and could keep Princeton's peculiar anachronism around for a long, long time...