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...Fowle Durant as a Christian college dedicated to "the glorification of God through the higher education of women." It is located on a peaceful clump of green field that looks like ten or twelve Harvard Yards thrown together. There are no men around except for a few janitors and stray faculty. Of course there are young men about on Friday and Saturday nights, and for Tuesday night coffee, Wednesday afternoon tea and Sunday noon dinner; but they hardly cause a stir. They always wear easy sport coats and speak infrequently and quietly. Dates without sport coats do not come...
...traction, onto the floor to reduce the risk of casualties from machine-gun bullets. When Americans urged her by phone from Kontum to take refuge in the city, she snapped: "Don't be ridiculous! I can't leave my patients." Then a stray bullet hit a woman in the thigh, and Dr. Smith was on the phone again, this time barking at an American commander: "Stop firing on my patients...
...situation-comedy writer, Lodge tailors his story and his characters to fit a loose collection of gags. The suspicion rises that he thought up the gags first. It is funny, of course, to see firemen swarm through the museum library on a false alarm, hosing down the stray scholar's pipe. But they are dispossessed figures like TV actors left standing on the studio stage while the scenery is being shifted for the next guffaw-in full view of the camera...
...symbolism and reality do not always coincide. Although the new bridge shortens the autobahn between Munich and West Berlin by 21 miles, it provides no link whatsoever between East and West Germany: the autobahn runs through a sealed corridor from which motorists cannot stray. Its inauguration, moreover, had to be accomplished without ceremony because the two governments refused to meet each other to open it. Bridge or no bridge, the truth is that the two Germanys seem to be drawing farther apart. For the first time since 1962, the Berlin Wall remained closed for Christmas this year: Bonn and Pankow...
...dogs." Apparently he sees them as some how different from other suburbanites, and the paper started in by catering to dog owners with a story on a local dog pound. The reporter turned up a more bizarre personality than he seemed to realize. As he discussed the number of stray dogs he must gas to death, the "dog warden" blurted out: "It's the damned people that I'd like to put in the gas chamber...