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Though it is not billed as an adventure or endurance test, Sea Semester tends to attract students who are tinged with wanderlust. Says Greg Montgomery, 20, a University of Virginia junior: "At school I have a 3.5 average, and I take academics very seriously, but I was getting stale." "Most kids this age are dying for a way to prove themselves," says Cramer. "The Peace Corps appealed to that. How many other ways are there today for a 20-year-old to exercise real responsibility and show that he's good...
Some of the metaphorical questions that used to get raised by the Enterprise's intergalactic encounters on the old TV show were at least a little more interesting than this stale intelligence-vs.-emotion debate. One suspects a sellout to the Me Generation's self-absorbed search for feelings. It's a wonder they didn't invite the great machine to join them for an Esalen weekend...
...feeling was clearly shared by British newspapers excluded from the cozy press conference arranged by the Times for Blunt. Huffed the Daily Express: "Professor Blunt would not have been offered so much as a stale kipper at the Express office, he is such a phony old humbug." Maureen Bingham, who spent 30 months in prison for violating the Official Secrets Act, charged, "It is one law for the rich and one law for the poor...
...musicians who have performed and recorded a large body of influential music without ever reaching beyond a narrow, rather cultish audience. The 47-year-old violinist has been a primary member of the Creative Construction Company and the Revolutionary Ensemble, two groups that have provided important alternatives to the stale conventions of the post-Coltrane New York avant-garde. All the same, Jenkins is hardly a household word, even in the rarefied vocabulary of the modern jazz enthusiast...
...painful exercise in redundancy, will run second to White in the preliminary. Timilty, who presided over President Carter's now-defunct National Commission of Neighborhoods and ran Carter through Pennsylvania, is after the mayor's scalp for the third time. He compares the White administration to a loaf of stale bread, believes in tax cuts, limiting condominium conversion along the lines of the Cambridge plan and the "neighborhood movement." What the neighborhood movement is, nobody, least of all the senator's staff, can put his finger on, although they're all willing to throw around the buzzwords of "empowerment...