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...need hardly condemn Madison Avenue values from hairdos to Buicks, to question their relevance at a Negro college: what kind of equalitarian does a status seeker make...
...soft on grades and work for reasons that range from fondness for overworked students to earnest boosterism ("We must stimulate interest in Shakespeare"). Such benevolence is subject to whim: sudden crackdowns make one year's gut next year's skull-cracker. Thus, each fall the avid "gut-seeker," as Harvard calls him, has to sniff out anew the telltale signs: heavy class attendance, especially by football players, and a proneness to refer to the course in slang, such as "Spots and Dots" (modern art), "Cops and Robbers" (criminology), "Pots and Pans" (homemaking), "Nuts and Sluts'' (abnormal...
...soft-thinker. An appeaser. A Munich-seeker. A dove. A better-red-than-deader. An ill-concealed unilateralist...
Last week engineers from Illinois Institute of Technology were field-testing the most sensitive leak seeker yet, a device that does its sniffing by sound. The Illinois scientists discovered that if sound waves of 40 cycles per second (a frequency just above the piano's middle G) are fed into a gas main, they will travel down the pipe, escaping along with the leaking...
Party also attacked the candidacy Stuart Hughes, calling him a very coleus candidate." He compared as to Lar Daly, a perennial Illions seeker who campaigns in an Uncle suit, and spoored him for "having a since rest this summer while the of the candidates were out meeting people as they should...