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...handball's place in the human imagination is that writers throughout the ages have turned to it as an experience of epiphany. In repeated references in the Bible and in ancient Greek myth, handball appears as a rooting, elemental experience, the ultimate symbol of man's ties to the soil (the first handballs were, of course, balls of mud) from which he sprang. Squash, we might...
Bigeard estimates that there are about 500 active left-wing extremists in the French army organized into 60 revolutionary cells. Their rebellious appeals fall on fertile soil at the parade grounds. Despite government attempts to quiet unrest in the ranks and improve morale by tripling the pay of draftees (from 600 to $1.80 a day), French troops are the lowest paid in Europe. Career officers also complain about low pay and the slow pace of advancement in spite of recent efforts to accelerate promotions...
...State Pete Cenasurra, and U.S. Senator Paul Laxalt of Nevada the only two American legislators of Basque origin, little headway can be expected in the battle to convince Congress that the autonomy of the Basque lands is more important than the maintenance of American military bases on Spanish soil. Those who would seem the most likely advocates of intervention, Basque-Americans with relatives still in the homeland, are prevented because the involvement of their names in the effort would jeopardize the security of the very people they want to help...
...history, admired the way "his thoughts progressed in a rational manner from beginning to end." A student who took that Barzun-Trilling course remembers most vividly the moment when some unfortunate victim cited the motto of the Order of the Garter during a class on Malthus. Said Barzun: "Honi soil qui Malthus pense." Said Trilling: "Honi soil qui mal thus puns...
While it's a bit in the future, another Frenchman will grace Harvard soil next week to talk about natural child-birth. Frederick Leboyer, a film-making doctor, will appear at the Yenching Institute next Thursday, November 20 to present his film Birth...