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...This thing has been going on for months now," Christian went on, "and I think it's a shame for a sore like this to exist in the presence of this so-called liberal institution...
Perky Style. Rockefeller's long, prepared speeches in more formal settings often underwhelm his audiences, but his peppy little talks followed by question periods show a perky platform style. "Believe me," he told his University of Kansas audience of 15,000, "it's a shame this isn't the convention. I may be late getting in, but I'm going to make up for lost time." He renewed his endorsement of a Selective Service lottery. He demanded "positive action to bring an honorable peace in Viet Nam." When one student asked if Rockefeller, as President, would...
...hundreds of localities and in thousands of concerned hearts, bridge building between the races is under way. Often the instrument is one human spirit, galvanized by an intolerable burden of contrition or shame. "I came to the conclusion that our country is very far from what we say it is in the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution," says Alan S. Traugott, 44, of Glen Ellyn, Ill., a white suburb west of Chicago. In March, this conviction led Traugott to resign his five-figure income and position as manager of the Sears, Roebuck store in Englewood, a Chicago neighborhood that...
...published last August in Partisan Review; called Whacking Off, it is a frantic confession of boyhood sin. Portnoy recalls how, as an adolescent, he always had to please his parents publicly, while he privately and obsessively masturbated to please himself; this experience sentenced him to a chronic condition of shame, which he begs his analyst to cure. The Jewish Blues, which reveals the Portnoy family guilts and secrets even further, appeared the following month in the first issue of New American Review. The fourth and by far largest section (28,000 words) appears in the Review's current issue...
...Crimson, sparked by Jim Baker's record-breaking performances in the mile and two-mile and Dick Benka's in the shot put, put the Cadets to shame...