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...whole shebang. Then, what the hell, we wouldn't have cared about the squeaky horns, cracking tenors, dump jokes, flickering spotlights, missed cues. We wouldn't have minded when an actor got stuck in the safety-pinned curtain, or when another knocked over a teapot. Oh for goodness sake-even a little filth would have helped...
...Over the frame goes a kerchief, with the ends either knotted at the nape of the neck or softly folded in front. The result: the scarf hat, a runaway bestseller that can safely be placed on freshly set hair and is often well worth wearing for its own stylish sake...
...group I student commented "Callousness, to me, is the only way to approach courses and grades at Harvard." Another deprecated grades: "a liberal arts education must be considered as art for art's sake...
...have yet to hear a protest by the traditionally liberal voices against the idea of a House Un-American Activities Committee investigation of the Ku Klux Klan. But the use of the legislative power of investigation in the service of "exposure for the sake of exposure" will be no less abhorrent to the principles of a free society when it is directed against the Klan than when it is directed against Communists. Laws forbidding mere membership in the Klan will no more serve the cause of freedom than do the Smith Act and the Subversive Activities Control Act. And since...
...faith, he said, is "its ability to remain in relation to the threatening aspects of reality without succumbing to fear, shame, anxiety or hostility. An unhealthy religion runs away, becomes obsessed with a part in order to avoid the whole. The body is denied for the soul's sake; the future becomes so fascinating that it blots out the present; all truth is limited to the Bible. A healthy religion unites existence, an unhealthy one divides...