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...householder, who often worked late in the city, had grown a bit smug about being spared so long. He always walked fast and purposefully. He was in pretty good shape. And he liked to think that he had acquired from a boyhood in the country some special alertness, a sharper sense of how to avoid danger than his acquaintances...
...often, M.I.T. Electrical Engineering Professor Louis Smullin told the Oct. 2 symposium, engineers "are washed up by the time they are 35 or 40, and new ones are recruited from the universities." Said C. Gordon Bell, vice president at Digital Equipment Corp.: "The young engineers coming in are sharper than older engineers. Sometimes they blow the older engineers away...
...arguments became sharper and more heated. I said that an Israeli commitment to withdraw was imperative, but that I was not trying to specify how much. I insisted that the interim proposal to let the Palestinians have full autonomy be as forthcoming as possible, with maximum authority for the people who lived on the West Bank and in Gaza. A continuing military occupation and deprivation of basic citizenship rights among the Arabs was unacceptable to the world and contrary to the principles that had always been such an integral part of Jewish beliefs. Begin shifted back to Sadat's proposal...
hill, as the wayfarer battles a curve and then a second, sharper right turn, two other obligatory props of a New England town blur past: the village store and the post office. Bryant Pond would be a dot on the map, located by reference to nearby towns with such names as Norway, Paris and Mexico, if it were not for one curious fact: this little way station happens to be the home of the last crank-telephone system in the U.S. Here is how it works. Somewhere in the modest stillness of Bryant Pond, someone rotates a crank, jangling...
...Review has invited itself out of meaningful campus debate. By not honoring The Review with its protests. Dartmouth students can give the paper the exclusion it so richly deserves. And maybe when The Review truly becomes a voice crying out in the wilderness, its stupidity will stand out in sharper relief. Maybe that's what Dartmouth's Black students had in mind when they refused to write any letters of protest in response to the latest Review attacks...