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...current endeavor to surround the admissions process with an aura of mystery is probably a defense mechanism on the part of a Committee harassed by applicants, parents, teachers, guidance counselors, and principals to define what the College is "looking for." Such a definition could quickly become extraordinarily limiting for a school which wants to remain flexible enough to identify, attract, and reward many forms of promise. Applicants already do their best to fit into what they consider the required mold, curtailing spontaneous intellectual griwth and activity. But if the Committee is now showing a Yankee sort of wisdom in keeping...
...hands, the country is safe." He has preserved the body of his late father in formaldehyde for the past 17 months in a gilded sandalwood urn at the entrance to the palace in the royal capital of Luangprabang, on the ground that the powerful phis (spirits) that surround the corpse of a king will ward off all invaders...
Hauser's plans are set back when Aelia refuses to seduce his thesis advisor. Her explanation: "'But Cas, darling,' she purred, appraising her luxuriant body in the curved mirror she had installed to surround her bed, 'I thought you knew. I mean, I wouldn't sleep with... with...a m-a-n.' She oozed the word through tightly clenched teeth, as if to bite the life out of it." Needless to say, Aelia seduces the professor's wife and Cas seduces the professor, and before long Cas has tenure...
...maser, of immense practical application not only on earth but in seeking out the wonders of the universe. Geneticist George Beadle has broken barriers with his experiments with such a seemingly trifling substance as bread mold. Physicist James Van Allen has searched out the radiation belts that surround the earth, and Physicist Edward Purcell can eloquently discuss the possibility of communicating with creatures in other worlds by means of radio waves...
...standing up as best they can for education and the law. The hatred and stupidity chat can keep children (who know no better) out of school and can find its only real expression in profanity and acts of violence, must sober even the hard bitten cheap politicans that surround Governor Jimmie Davis...