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...Student Council has not succeeded in convincing undergraduates that it has a real role to play at Harvard. It is threatened by the same apathy which hurt the old Council, and as yet it has failed to convince undergraduates that it has real influence on the Administration--a sine qua non for survival...
Angina and pain are inseparable in the layman's mind. But to complete the confusion, Dr. Briggs lists a paradoxical angina sine dolore-angina without pain. The victim feels generally distressed and may get the sweats. Treatment is the same as for the viselike attacks: a tablet of nitroglycerin and rest...
Both cartoonists have hordes of loyal fans; both draw moonfaced characters; both go by a single name. There ends the resemblance between Belgium's Herge and France's Sine, two of Europe's finest cartoonists. To win an audience, Herge sees mostly the sweetness, Sine sees mostly the blight...
Gallery of Horrors. In startling contrast to the sweetness of Tintin are the cartoons in the Paris weekly L'Express by Sine (real name: Maurice Sinet), 29, France's highest-paid freelance artist (posters, stage sets, animated ads). Sine's more innocent drawings include murders -a wife eating her husband's brains after dicing his skull like a melon. His really mordant streak is reserved for legless cripples who leave their carts outside Moslem temples beside the shoes of other visitors and boy scouts who thumb rides from Christ as he walks with his cross...
...Sine got this way not even Sine can fully explain. But some of his spleen seemingly stems from his year in the army. He was a military misfit, spent months in jail. When he got out, Sine was fighting mad. ''I took up judo to get even with those s.o.b.s if I ever met any again. I hate all military paraphernalia, blustering ex-servicemen wearing medals, and by extension, every kind of cripple, however blameless...