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...19th century's grim but necessary preoccupation with industrial growth would pass away, and a time would come "when man has made himself perfectly comfortable and has ... to determine what to do with himself." To provide a standard for that coming day, he proposed to seek out and proclaim "the best that has been known and thought in the world...
...these elementary requirements would certainly have convinced the founders of the African and Afro-American Association that a membership clause which excludes whites on the basis of race would have to be rejected by the HCUA and the Deans. Yet they sent Mr. Armah before the HCUA to proclaim that the phrase "Africans and Afro-Americans" means no whites allowed. If the membership clause is as discriminatory as Mr. Armah insists Harvard as a Massachusetts college, ought not to approve it. And the founders of the African and Afro-American Association should have known better to expect otherwise: no other...
...determination to unite only with "liberated" Arab states and to shun monarchies. Said new Jordanian Prime Minister Rifai: ''We have our pride. We are just as healthy and strong as any Arab state. We don't intend to rush into anything, but we do intend to proclaim our good will and our attachment to Arab unity." Then he added hopefully, "There's every reason for the new Arab union to welcome Jordan and no reason to bar a constitutional monarchy. We have more freedom than many republics. What's the difference anyway between a constitutional...
Advertising in newspapers around the country, Lake Mead Rancheros promises 1¼-acre lots for as little as $595 with easy terms ($10 down, $10 a month). Its brochures show bikini-clad cuties splashing in the lake's blue waters and proclaim "livable now! . . . not raw, undeveloped, inaccessible land." But, said Talley, Lake Mead is some 50 miles away. And at the property, "there are absolutely no utilities available. Six miles from the nearest lot and ten to twelve miles from the principal part of the subdivision is a tank-operated machine where one can deposit a quarter...
...advertisements proclaim "a fifteen-year-old, leading a man to destruction," but the tenor of all this "destruction" is pretty tame. As in so many cases, there is more going on in the theatre than on the screen by way of titillation. Audiences which are sent into paroxysms by angry young man films or the Italian realists may feel edified by Term of Trial; I am inclined to join with Shirley's roommate in a plaintive, "Give me some action...