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TIME is weekly reading for 150,000 high school students, thanks to the TIME Education Program. These students receive TIME at reduced rates, and their teachers are provided with monthly study guides, news quizzes and other materials. For a free copy of the annual quiz, write to TIME Test, 211 West 61st Street, New York...
Like eager quiz-show contestants, Zed and Boorman are not bashful about flaunting their education. Bolstered by his psychic seminar. Zed drops quotes from Ecdesiastes, T.S. Eliot and Nietzsche, whose idea of a superman he now suggests. For himself, Boorman borrows -and cunningly acknowledges-a crucial image from L. Frank Baum's Wizard of Oz. The trouble is that none of these sources is assimilated; they are like footnotes without a source. Fortunately there are some bright intervals of self-deprecatory humor that lighten the occasional pomposity of the material...
...Quiz. In a statement, the White House pleaded with "the American people" to realize that the erasure did not prove that the lost conversation had contained any incriminating evidence. But that legally valid distinction defied logic and, perhaps more important to Nixon's survival as President, plain ordinary common sense. Only the White Queen in Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, as conservative Columnist George F. Will observed, was capable of believing "six impossible things before breakfast...
Once again the Crimson Sports Department reaches back for some sporting news during exam period, and once again the only thing we can come up with is a second annual sports quiz which is more subjective and less enlightening than last year's fiasco...
...intellectual friends. Out of ignorance he keeps mum at a Christmas soiree while three of these pink-faced friends debate Marx and the Church--they talk hollow-voiced in five syllable jargon and make their points with snaky fingertip gestures. When Simon interrupts to protest their irreverence, they quiz him on his culture, until, failed and furious, he takes a stolid leave...