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...original co-author of "Jack Benny's most famous joke" (with Collaborator Jack Tackaberry), I must tell you that I don't resent them stealing the joke so much as doing it badly...
...recent sit-in and the ensuing student demands seem to me to be a contradiction of the sponsoring organization's name, Students for a Democratic Society. I, for one, resent the idea that a minority should tell me whether or not I can see a recruiter from Dow Chemical, the CIA, or the military. It is certainly within any group's rights to stage a peaceful demonstration for the purpose of bringing to attention the record of a recruiter such as Dow Chemical. But it should be the individual's choice as to whether he still wants to be interviewed...
...haven for draft dodgers (West Berlin residents are exempt from West Germany's 18-month conscription) and police-baiting left-wingers who want peace with East Germany at any price. "Rowdies once and for all will be put in their place," he says. The students are likely to resent his toughness, but they can hardly challenge his credentials. He was, after all, one of the students who founded the Free University in 1948 as a protest against Communist domination of the old Berlin University in the city's East Sector...
...Towns Act, the Ministry can establish public corporations "to acquire, hold, manage, and dispose of land and other property, to carry out any business or undertaking in or for the purpose of the new town." The breadth of the corporational mandate usually alienates local politicians. They resent the intrusion of highly educated administrators and architects into their districts. And since the corporation must consult local authorities at each planning stage, fierce fights often occur. For example at Hemel Hempstead the local residents brought the Ministry into court because they felt the corporation was ignoring their desires...
...group, you tend to lecture to the walls anyway." Extensive use of tape is likely to force professors to specialize more: one may become the stirring lecturer, another a skilled lab-type demonstrator, another an inspiring seminar leader. After years of academic pressure to get into college, many students resent being asked to sit in front of what they consider "an idiot box"-even if a genius is on the screen...