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Roberts called the convocation idea "an elaborate charade," which would have the same "substantive political impact" as a regular vote. He added that the avoidance of a regular Faculty vote would, at the same time, "blunt the motion's moral thrust" and act as "a slap at student protest...
Always trying in every way to imitate the giants of journalism, the CRIMSON has generally followed this rule. Now and then a reporter may self indulgently slap a troublesome news source: "Professor so and so refused to answer questions about..." "The Dean could not be reached at his home or anywhere else on the Eastern Seaboard for comment last night." But more often the routine story of how the news is gathered remains where it belongs, far off the front page...
...spent on the set-four times the TV average -and another $100,000 on wardrobes, $50,000 of it for Lana. But that didn't stop her from quarreling with Producer Frye over the jewelry provided. Frye couldn't be bothered, he said, and got a slap across the face. He slapped back -on both cheeks-and she told the producer he was through...
...hanged. The Rockefeller empire stretches from practically one end of Latin America to the other, representing the powerful wealth and prosperity of the U.S. and everything that goes along with it. This "fact-finding mission," nothing more than a gesture of appeasement to Latin America, has become a double slap in the face...
Until that dawn of destruction, the best advice is to go merrily, merrily. For "the deepest insights sometimes emerge from a joke, a gag, or a slap in the face," says Argentina's Julio Cortazar, author of the highly praised fantasy-novel Hopscotch and of Blow-Up, the short story turned hit movie by Michelangelo Antonioni...