Word: return
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Supreme Court ruling handed down last Monday will probably result in the return of 4-D theological deferments for three Harvard divinity students...
...indefensible--not because the target happened to be us, the professors, instead of Dow. That these points should have to be explained to one's students is normal--I have learned enough from them, especially in the realm of moral concern and idealistic commitment, to insist in return, without condescension, that they learn some essional distinctions without which they will not be responsible citizens or even effective radicals. That one should have to teach these distinctions to a philosopher-colleague is more baffling...
...people could figure out life in terms of triangles with two forces, preferably people, interacting in terms of a third mediating force, not necessarily people, triangles which revolve until they form a sphere and return to the beginning, then life would go on. As would death...
Dark As the Grave is perhaps most useful as a new guide to Under the Volcano, more personal data for the cultists, more evidence with which to locate Lowry's favorite cantinas. The novel traces Lowry's return to Mexico with Margerie, just before Under the Volcano was finally accepted for publication. In Dark As the Grave, we meet some of the characters who appeared in different form in Under the Volcano, and we discover the often mundane source of what had seemed brilliant invention in the earlier novel. The Consul's mistranslation of the sign "Evite que sus hijos...
Beating the Book. Among many horror stories uncovered in the investigation was that of a Houston real estate man, who complained that he bought a 1967-model car for $7,000-and has had to return it to the dealer for repairs 27 times. Was the car defective or the repair work ineffective? Probably both. Glenn F. Kriegel, operator of a Denver "diagnostic center" that inspects cars for signs of trouble but does no repairing itself, checked 7,000 cars after they had left service shops in his area; less than 1% of them had been fixed properly, and some...