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...habit of obliterating the offending language with black paint. Retaliation in kind follows. A few years ago, while driving to a Brussels suburb, I came to a point where five roads met. There were five direction signs in both languages, all blacked out, leaving me or any other stranger to guess which one to take. Luckily, I spoke both French and Flemish and was able to ask a native. When I asked him for la bonne route in French, he refused to answer as a matter of principle, but when I asked for de weg, he obliged, somewhat startled...
Portions of the tone of the article--a quote such as "the stranger who threatened to stab me 'some night in Harvard yard' as I was leaving the lecture hall, I took to be acting impulsively and not reflecting official SDS or UAG or PLP policy"--may lead one to believe that Herrnstein may have enjoyed parts of his battle, an idea that he denied last night...
...Still stranger than the Rocky-Rose partnership was their choice of a savior: Democrat Robert Ferdinand Wagner, 62, the man who had served three terms as mayor, from 1954 to 1965. As mayor, Wagner made some advances in civil rights, increased the police force and kept peace with the unions; but in many other areas he exhibited a glacial inertia, and he left the city with more potholes in its streets and more holes in its civic pride than he had inherited. Indeed, Rockefeller and Rose supported Lindsay in 1965 as the man who could best "save" New York City...
...seems to be still out of touch with the most basic kind of emotional reality. Fonda, consistently underkeyed, and Parsons, forever frazzled, contribute what little the movie has to offer. Wagner, who looks about as much like a high-fashion model as a drive-in carhop, remains throughout a stranger to conviction. · Jay Cocks
BYRON'S STORY is stranger in the traditional sense of the absurd. Once for example he was running along the beach and drawn to a mansion in which he found a dead, mutilated woman. He set about to erase her by burying her and burning her books and photos, and is relieved of his inner drive only when everything is in order...