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...conception of a United States Senator is not of a young man able to out-smile and out-handshake his opponents, who can swallow intellectual pablum spoon-fed him by a group of professors, only to gilbly regurgitate it for a radio and television audience at optimum listening hours. It is rather of a man, hopefully seasoned and matured by capable, intelligent public service, who seeks high office on the basis of his own merits, his own record, and his own ideas. Ted Kennedy certainly is not such a man. Harry F. Greene '63 Hendrik Hertzberg '65 Peter J. Wallison...
There were two schools of loading. The "loose packers" held that more slaves survived in a ship's hold if they had enough room to lie on their backs. The "tight packers" insisted slaves should be jammed in "spoon fashion" on their sides because, even if a few more died that way, the extra bodies a ship could carry more than made up the loss...
...form of the book is much like that of Edgar Lee Masters' Spoon River Anthology. Novelist Grubb, a fine writer whose best-known book is The Night of the Hunter, has written this long, impressive chronicle with great anger and great love-anger for the stupidity and venality of the powerful, love for the weakness of the weak. In their testimony, the town fathers incriminate themselves: the rich doctor objects that Marcy is taking money from the purses of honest physicians with her free toxin-antitoxin shots; the minister pompously complains of Marcy's interfering when she tells...
That's a real fact. "Courtship makes a man spoon," Don will inform his listeners, "but marriage is what makes him fork over." McNeill himself has no monopoly on the maize. Comedian Sam Cowling (a 23-year man on the show) is the author of a regular feature called "Fact and Fiction From Sam's Almanac." Says wise old Sam: "The distance from the head of a fox to its tail is a fur piece...
Whenever the child's hand touches something, the teacher takes the other hand and spells into it by touch-alphabet the name of the object: doll, water, mother, mug, spoon. The child imitates the hand motions, but does not understand. Yet repetition of touch-spelled words in a framework of discipline is the only way that a spark can ever jump the distance between imitation and imagination, so the teacher is rough and unsentimental. The child kicks and slaps, and the teacher slaps back. The famous ten-minute fight between them is fully as long and exhausting on film...