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Arriving at Harvard several months behind schedule ("this is a troubled world"), Billy Graham converts almost half-a-dozen students to Christ at a Memorial Church service. "Sin pervades this campus," the famed video preacher said, citing the Science Center men's room and Tommy's Lunch as particular heathen-breeders. WHRB, whose president announces he has "seen the lights," switches to 24-hour sermonette programming...
...line in that processional,/ Step into that small confessional,/ There the guy who's got religion'll/ Tell you if your sin's original." There was a time (circa 1955) when The Vatican Rag caused frissons and merriment all around the campus- circuit. Songwriter Tom Lehrer was a Harvard math professor who could do numbers on anything from sex to the Bomb. But satire is a parasitical art, no stronger than its host. Folk singers, the. military, Freud and faith, all have been familiar targets for over a generation. Today Tomfoolery, a chrestomathy of 28 Lehrer hits...
...found that such textbooks emphasize mathematical theory at the expense of practice and are usually written in baffling jargon. Emphasis is placed on rapid exposure to many "topics," or procedures. Before students can master one topic, explains Saxon, they must move on to a new one. The great sin, he insists, is that the books teach abstract theory first and skills second-the reverse of the order in which children normally learn...
Forgetfulness for whatever reason is an unforgivable sin for the American left, for it mirrors too closely the greed-induced myopia of our country's post-World War II foreign policy. El Salvador--indeed all of Latin America--provides a textbook case of this phenomenon, a classic example of the wrongheaded shortsightedness that loses us almost every Third World friend we have...
David Stockman is just another name on a long list of political unfortunates who have been boiled in oil for committing a cardinal sin: telling the truth...