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...depend on others, more militant and more deeply involved, to identify the causes worthy of their concern. Perhaps, then, being a liberal means willingly isolating yourself from most of the ugly social problems-salving your conscience but still keeping your distance by inviting into your homes and ballrooms certain select, cleaned-up representatives of the angry peoples of the world...
...guests began filing in at 5:30 p.m. at the approximate pace of a World Series crowd. While they drank to tinkling background music of polkas and show tunes, the mayor and his wife joined a select group of 150 VIPs in a snug cocktail setting behind the speaker's platform. The union leaders pawed their way toward the mayor, beaming for bulb-popping cameras as they pumped his hand...
...procedures would thus avoid the situations of last Fall, when last year's freshmen refused to select a delegate, Dudley House elected one pledged to oppose the Committee, and Quincy House, after a series of vacillations, finally decided to send...
...election procedures call for a lottery in each House to select an 11-member panel, which would then choose two or fewer of its members as nominees to enter a grand pool. If it preferred, students in the House could elect nominees from the list of the 11 panel members. Four names would then be chosen at random from the pool of nominees of all the Houses. They would be the student delegates...
Asked about the Houses' refusal to select a pool of students, May said last night, "I think I'd have to wait until the last returns are in, and then talk to the committee's chairman about...