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Shouts of "source," "smut," and "time's up" filled the room as members of English N debated the resolution "Co-education with Radcliffe is a Pox on Harvard" in the course's eleventh heckling debate last night in Boylston Auditorium...
Short Tests. To formulate such a theory, admits Gajdusek, is to call into question much of the traditional thinking of virologists. Generations of researchers have been accustomed to thinking of viruses as microbes that behave somewhat predictably. Typically, as in the case of measles, German measles, chicken pox, the common cold and influenza-of the Hong Kong variety, or whatever-they seem to appear from nowhere, spend a few days, or at most two or three weeks, incubating in the victim's body, then cause a brief, feverish illness...
...heckler-provided, of course, he is reasonably civilized and relatively quiet. A classic was the riposte by John Wilkes, an 18th century libertine and libertarian, who heard the Earl of Sandwich roar at him in Commons: "I am convinced, Mr. Wilkes, that you will die either of a pox or on the gallows." Wilkes parried: "That, my lord, depends on whether I embrace your mistress or your principles." Today, Prime Minister Harold Wilson can also hold his own. When a heckler shouted "Rub bish!" during a 1966 election rally, Wilson won points by imperturbably replying: "We'll take...
...that) could be handed out by a kangaroo court of Marine officers as casually as a parking fine would be imposed today. Scarred, starved and brutalized, the convict sub-world could credibly circulate the malicious scandal that the cattle belonging to the officers' ruling caste had died of pox contracted through bestial sexual commerce with their owners...
...pox on Mr. Munson, the building inspector who would force parents to obtain tree-house permits [July 7] for the safety of their kids. And a plague on him for daring to suggest specifications. Shall we add this to the burgeoning list of personality-stifling, scarlet-taped "blueprints for living" that add so much pallor to American childhood these days? Can a boy build his Shangri-la with a mind cluttered by requirements for 1-in. floor boards, two-by-four framing and 42-in.-high walls? Can he grow into the resourceful, inventive, self-sufficient...