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Many students according to Beecher, accept their 1-A classification with a shrug of resignation even though they completely fit the requirements for 2-S. This is particularly chilling in light of the report's revelation that some local boards are sending 1-A classification to all their students in order to determine who is 2-S on the basis of the expected appeals...
...order Danish pastry in Copenhagen and people will shrug their shoulders in dismay. They call it Vienna bread. Ask for vichyssdise in Vichy: until recently the French waiter said blankly, "Pardon?" And why should he know? It was invented in 1917 by Louis Diat, the chef at New York's Ritz-Carlton Hotel to take advantage of all those extra potatoes...
What's New, Pussycat? reaches out for a world about to come, a world where all repression will be abolished and where abnormality will disappear. It reaches with humor, for laughter may be the best way to shrug off the puritanical past. Those who do not believe in such an enhanced conception of human liberty may find the film shocking and worthless. But those in the vanguard in the war against inhibition are sure to respond to this new and freer conception of humor...
...cautiously by publishing this week's White Paper describing his plan before coming forward with an actual bill. There is good reason for this unusual procedure. By calling for a vote on the White Paper, which is likely to come within the next two weeks, he could shrug off defeat as not important enough to warrant resignation of his government-then trim the terms of his steel nationalization plans so as to win over the two or three marginal votes needed to carry his slim margin when the vote comes on the actual bill itself. Inevitably, the cry "slippery...
...West Coast schools tend to use the artist in informal seminars, then let him work while students kibitz or wait to nail him at coffee breaks. At Wisconsin, Painter Aaron Bohrod avoids talks, just keeps his studio open. "Fascinating verbalists may not lead you to the understanding that a shrug of the shoulders can," he says. Many colleges use performing artists primarily to direct student productions in drama, music, the dance...