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Magnified Image. The increased pro-U.S. activity has helped create a wide spectrum of student opinion that can be broken into fairly definable categories. On the left are the activist Vietniks, eager to protest the war; next are the doves, who oppose the U.S. role but shun demonstrations; and in the middle are the apathetics, who simply are not concerned enough to think through their own stand. Then come the pragmatists, who may have little enthusiasm for the war but feel that the U.S. is committed to fight it, and on the right the hawks, who are eager...
...wants to gimmick around with your life." "Our job is people," says the Rev. Harold Cooper, one of the Protestant chaplains at the University of Massachusetts, "and the idea is not to bring them into the fold but to help them live better lives as persons." Most chaplains today shun even such an old-fashioned evangelistic idea as a "Religious Emphasis Week"; they talk about God only when the students want to. Church-sponsored activities, often organized ecumenically by team ministers of different faiths, rarely stress their denominational origin. At Columbia, the Protestant Office sponsors a student hangout called...
...middle-aged shutin should first discard the summer reading list. He would never get around to all those titles anyway. Besides, as the old adage has it, a man who reads to improve himself is probably beyond hope of improvement. The catch-up reader should then resolve to shun all the authors he feels obliged to read. If his conscience impels him toward Marlowe, he should settle for Harlow; if his secret ambition is to get through all of Dumas, he should try a Du Maurier. For the habitual nonreader to leap into Finnegans Wake or Wittgenstein is almost...
...glad you don't shun...
Softballing Turks. Reaching Kusadasi -his town of banishment-last" year, Baldwin had to report daily to the police. Because of his prison record he had been afraid that the townspeople might shun him. "They didn't," he says, "and that I appreciate. Soon I began to see ways I could be useful to individuals and the town as a whole...