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Still, her unionizing activity seems to be the sustaining force in Schroder's career at Harvard, a career that until recently was dotted with disappointments and rude awakenings to the lot of secretaries here...
...nobody loves me's." I am sure the faculty would call it "anti-intellectualism." We can see it in such areas of society as disenchanted students, angry congressmen, disappointed parents, Gallup polls, etc. The professor sees it in shrinking grants, criticism from know-nothing politicians, nasty radicals who are rude about the rules of scholarship, etc. I have always found that the other side of a giant, arrogant ego is a painful desire to be petted and stroked. Where else would that apply more? (Except perhaps on Capitol Hill, but there they have to get used to having a shoe...
...event shines across the centuries like a beacon. In a Bethlehem stable, a child was born, wrapped in swaddling clothes, laid in a manger. But the rude circumstances could not conceal an extraordinary birth. Angels filled the sky, praising God and proclaiming peace on earth. Amazed shepherds came to honor the babe. Wise men from the East, guided by a miraculous star, arrived to do homage with gifts of gold, frankincense and myrrh...
...into a steel guard rail. Both kidnapers and kidnaped staggered out. Although one gunman pointed a pistol at D'Angerio and demanded that he follow along, the prince trotted the other way. With a thoroughly modern sense of noblesse oblige, he told newsmen later, "I uttered a rude word in Neapolitan and made an internationally understood gesture with my right arm before disappearing into the fog." The kidnapers were not so lucky. One of them left his wallet and identification in the wrecked car, which the police hope will lead to the capture of the whole bunch...
...missed in absence from Samkange's course. Samkange attempted to call Walter J. Leonard, Angela Leonard's father and special assistant to President Bok. He recalled last week that he told Florence Leonard, Angela Leonard's mother, that a child from a decent home shouldn't have been as rude to him as he said Angela Leonard was. This fall, the Commission of Inquiry took up Angela Leonard's complaint denouncing Samkange for trying to involve her parents in her academic affairs...