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Students claw at their carrel-tops and calculate ("If I read 800 words a minute, sixteen hours a day, I will finish the reading by August 20th. But if I read 800 words a minute for seventeen hours...."). Cold fact asserts itself through sleep-drugged minds ("Gazelles cannot actually leap; they are merely very poor flyers"), until fact and fancy no longer collide but merge like an icy cancer spreading over a Roast Beef Special ("If the Atlantic rose and drowned all the gazelles there might not be any Harry Levin...
...Centennial Issue marks an exception. It has one play, one story, and one critical essay, each among the most exciting samples of its genre that I have recently seen. It has seventeen poems, all by eminent poets, four of them exceptional. Finally, it has four reminiscences of the late T. S. Eliot, slightly redundant, but inevitably so given the limits of such works...
...Seventeen Law School professors have expressed opposition to student deferments in particular and the draft system in general in a letter to the National Advisory Commission on Selective Service...
International Order. Far more was ending than NATO's attachment to a lovely city or France's military cooperation with the rest of the West. Seventeen years after its founding as a bulwark against Soviet aggression, NATO itself was undergoing a profound change. It was a reflection of the new mood sweeping Western Europe. Wearied by burdensome defense spending and convinced that the Soviet threat had all but vanished, the Continent's statesmen were seeking ways to eradicate the last lingering memories of the cold war. In Bonn last week, Europe's venerable integrationist, Jean Monnet...
...sermons. Yet McCall's resident psychiatrist, Theodore Isaac Rubin, offered morose counsel: "There are those who feel they should have such enormous enjoyment during a holiday that they become depressed anticipating their inevitable disappointment. Yes, having to enjoy themselves can be burden enough to kill the enjoyment." And Seventeen's psychiatrist, Robert Nixon, warned his adolescent readers of the "wonderful, terrible power of takeover" of Christmas. Young people, he confided, are bound to feel disconsolate when Christmas Day finally arrives...