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There is nothing like Commencement, however, for waking up from a reading period stupor. There is, as the man once said, "always something" to slap you in the face, to dash a little cold water at you before you start out on a hot summer day. The slap this year came from Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, who journeyed down from exile in Vermont to pick up an honorary degree and chide America for flabby morals and a lack of purpose. The national press took note, as it usually does when people start talking about morals or anything else at a Harvard Commencement...
Unseeded Mike Operacz jumped off to a 5-0 lead in the first game but the second-seeded Acosta emerged from his stupor to tie Operacz at 14 all. After giving up two more points, Acosta ran off seven straight winners to take the game going away...
Perhaps the best love song is "No Tell Lover," which treads a fine line between being too up to be true and being too down to keep from falling into a sentimental stupor...
...demeaning for it to elect such mechanical legalistic smoothness as you have. After the suffering of decades of violence and oppression, the human soul longs for things higher, warmer and purer than those offered by today's mass living habits, introduced by the revolting invasion of publicity, by T.V. stupor and by intolerable music...
...East, he said, people "are becoming firmer and stronger, " while in the West they are being sapped by "today's mass living habits ... by the revolting invasion of publicity, by TV stupor and by intolerable music." His message: "No weapons ... can help the West until it overcomes its loss of will power ... To defend oneself, one must also be ready to die; there is little such readiness in a society raised in the cult of material wellbeing. "At the heart of these problems, as he sees it, is the "rationalistic humanism "rooted in the Renaissance and the Enlightenment, when...