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Sizer also decried the tendency of schools to suppress individuality. He explained that the regimentation and organization of students on the basis of apparent similarities, rather than intellectual and social characteristics, individuality and hinders the teaching of esthetic and ethical values...
Middle Line-Bumpers. "I suppress eroticism," he says. "I treat the nude as optical art." Alluding to the Son et Lumiere spectacles that are held in summer at many of France's châteaux, he says, "That's essentially what we have here, but instead of illuminating Chambord or Chenonceaux, we play lights on Neferzouzou and Bertha von Paraboum...
While I am entirely in sympathy with the stand taken by the North Harvard Community. I cannot suppress a sneaking curiosity as to how many of the students in that area have, unthinkingly, used the high sounding phrase "Property Rights Or Human Rights?" at some time in the past. The Urban Renewal problem dramatically domonstrates that, in our society, the right to the unhindered use and possession of property is among the most important of human rights. David Friedman...
...seemed a dangerous disease that was easy enough to diagnose but difficult to treat. The victim got a raging sore throat, a high fever, and a rash that spread over most of his body and gave the illness its name. But physicians and bacteriologists found that though they could suppress the rash, they could do little else for their patients. Researchers also found that patients who had one bout of scarlet fever might never have another, but if they got the same kind of sore throat again, they might develop heart or kidney disease...
...from wretched. Big, solidly built, and bristling with guns, they are manned by thousands of tough young Portuguese soldiers who have no illusions about their job. "Africans are pleasant people." said one trooper recently, "but we need cheap labor. If the Africans challenge this, we will have to suppress them...