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...Sinners. "What was the reason?" asked the Salt Lake City Tribune. "Perhaps there was no reason at all. Hatred knows no rules, fanaticism creates its own warped logic." In Detroit, the News found everyone involved in the blame: "Let not the political right look down its pious nose at the political left. Let not the left sanctimoniously ask, 'Lord, is it I?' We are all sinners...
...General Clay is now with Lehman Brothers," said Avco Board Chairman Kendrick R. Wilson Jr. "He's an army officer who made good," added Funston. Khrushchev raised a pious eyebrow: "You have 190 million people. Why don't they all make good? Certainly they have not trespassed against...
...there is a more serious reservation to Conant's proposals. Both at the beginning and the end of the book he makes pious reference to public opinion and the importance of gathering informed laymen's views on teacher education. The program he designs, however, would take little note of these views; by removing extensive state super-vision of teacher training it seeks not to increase public participation, but to widen professional control to include academic faculties. This aim is unrealistic. The ultimate effect of making institutions as a whole responsible for teacher training is to increase the accountability...
...Barrington Moore. An all-star cast of Raiffa, Schlaifer, and Pratt will discuss decision theory in Stat. 288. And in response to the first commandment, "Let there be light," we have Via. Stud. 145, "The Flics," courtesy of R. G. Gardner. Harvard students are lucky to have such a pious faculty...
...preposterous libretto, inspired by Byron's The Corsair-the story of an Aegean pirate whose ill-starred romance leads to murder and suicide-scarcely helps matters. The one pleasing aria and the single engaging duet could hardly be expected to mollify a fastidious audience. Even the most pious Verdi worshipers could not help applying to their hero the only couplet in Byron's windy poem that is worth remembering...