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...aura of mystery causing fantasies of primitive rites and intimate confessions. There appears something un-kosher about a course without a real teacher to direct the activities of the class, without a conventional structure in which everyone feels secure. It is this lack of authority which allegedly allows the pent-up hostilities of a frustrated University life to escape--devouring the vulnerable innocents...
...came up to shake hands, the President beamed warmly, chatted cheerfully with the chairman for a few minutes while cameramen snapped away, then steered Fulbright into his private office for a few more minutes of talk. The White House later leaked broad hints that the two had resolved their pent-up differences-though only a few hours later, Fulbright's committee coldly excised some of the conditions and funds that the President had demanded as essential to his foreign-aid program. In fact, the Arkansas Senator is as far as ever from a reconciliation with his quondam friend...
There's likely to be some fun for Quincy House, too. Dunn is known to wear a dress kilt to formal Lowell House dinners, and he and his wife excel at Scottish country dancing. As for the bagpipes, "the upper pent-house of Quincy," he says, "is a very suitable place for them...
...author perhaps more richly deserves a new appraisal than Michel de Montaigne. Four centuries have passed since, pent in his tower study outside Bordeaux, he set down the Essays that were to transport his name to literature's firmament. Immured in an age that was largely brutal, incurious and ignorant, he managed to convey a message and a spirit so lively and civilized that they have come down through the centuries virtually unscathed...
...successes. I must, however, disagree with your statement: "India without Nehru stands dispirited and disillusioned." After the death of a dynamic Prime Minister or President, it is not unusual for a country to feel orphaned and disillusioned for a short time. But there has been a tremendous release of pent-up energy in India that will carry it forward for years, and the cause will find its leader. A temporary food shortage and a border invasion do not change the pride or mental attitude of a people with 5,000 years of civilization behind them. British rule in India...