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Even though he is in prison for his part in the Watergate affair, I believe John W. Dean is Man of the Year. I shudder to think what would have happened to America had it not been for his testimony...
...EVEN MORE excruciating crises are plaguing the world, crises to which we can be but impervious. Looking at newspaper photographs of emaciated women combing the ground for blades of wheat to give their dying children is little different from reading unemployment statistics in Newsweek. We look, shudder, and lament, and then run to make the last feature at the Brattle. Perhaps we could grasp 'the magnitude of the situation if some international group flew in a group of Bengali or Nigerian villagers to Harvard Square, where they would compete with chanting Hare Krishna people for the attention of the people...
...sight of this bannisterial specimen, but I was calm as I edged my duff onto its perimeter, then slid down. Upon my descent, the Dean appeared from the shadows and growled, you don't belong at this college young man, and I fled out the door with a shudder...
...possible only if one believes what F. Skiddy von Stade '37, dean of freshmen, said five years ago--that educated women are simply less useful to society than educated men. "When I see the bright, well-educated, but relatively dull housewives who attended the Seven Sisters, I honestly shudder at the thought of changing the balance of males versus females at Harvard," von Stade said. "Quite simply, I do not see highly educated women making startling strides in contributing to our society in the foreseeable future. They are not, in my opinion, going to stop getting married and/or having children...
...blink your eyes in the pervasive neon light as you are sucked further into the maze, past Fine Arts, past Sociology. You find yourself in front of Government 116 with its concise, peremptory title--Socialism. As Marx and Lenin stare out at you from behind hortatory covers, you shudder at the sudden bite of the thick moist air settling in the wintry streets of a European capital. The three-story facades of workers' houses are depressing in their black-sooted brick, and the smoke emanating from the stack of a nearby factory leaves an acrid smell in the air. Leaflets...