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...middle-class white students, though genuinely indignant about economic and racial inequalities, have begun judging the country as if its material problems had virtually been solved. Progress, they argue from this philosophical perspective, has in many ways made men worse, not better. No matter how dazzling, GNP can never spell GOD. Rockets, computers, the fair distribution of enough goods and services have little value except as machinery used to create a society. That society is valuable only in terms of the caliber of its people, their sense of justice and honesty, their appreciation of beauty, their self-restraint, the excellence...
Less radical members of M.L.A. were appalled. "If the M.L.A. starts taking political stands," said Executive Council Member O. B. Hardison of the University of North Carolina, English department, "it may spell the death of this organization. This is an attempt by 300 people to control 28,000." On the contrary, says Kampf: "The association should stimulate its members to personal and active concern with educational and social issues...
WHEN THE doors opened and the men got out, the spell was broken--for an instant. After the silence there was a brief squeal of joy from wives and children seeing the man they were looking for, but then there was abrupt silence again. The men wore blue denim jackets with "USS Pueblo" written in faded letters on the back. They had blue denim caps and all were pale. They walked quietly, most without smiling, down the ramp and into the crowd. A few hugged wives and children, but it wasn't a wild kissing-the-soil scene from...
...second half, Harvard outplayed the Dons, but, perhaps under the spell of U.S.F. alumnus Bill Russell or, as Harrison would have it, some rotten officiating, the victory went to the lesser outfit...
...mildly wicked undergraduate years at Columbia (including a one-meeting membership in the Young Communist League), his ultimate discovery of a faith and a vocation. It was a book suffused with spiritual zeal, and was perhaps the last great flowering of Catholic romanticism. Its perfume was provocative. Under its spell, disillusioned veterans, students, even teen-agers flocked to monasteries across the country either to stay or visit as retreatants...