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...Swell," was the comment of Rhesus J. Portfolio '03 after his team's crippling 3 1/4-3 upset loss to Samuel Tech yesterday on Soldiers Field...
...what is at the end? The organ notes swell up. There will arrive a day of "the noblest and most just morality" once "the magnificent and enduring edifice of socialism" is built. There will be love of the socialist motherhood, "conscientious labor for the good of society-he who does not work, neither shall he eat"; "one for all and all for one"; "man is to man a friend, comrade and brother," and there is "honesty and truthfulness, moral purity, modesty and guilelessness in social and private life," and intellectuals will not be a group apart because all the masses...
That an amateur orchestra should tackle Mahler would seem to swell ambition into hybris evoke awe but wreak disaster. And for it to invite so great an artist as Maureen Forrester would seem to make conceivable only nemesis or utter triumph. But the gods were sleepy Friday night; the thunderbolt never came. Neither catastrophe nor undreamed success came to the HRO: feeling flickered in the music now and again, sometimes brilliantly, but never consistently...
...Constitution by extending federal coverage to firms operating within a single state. Others feared that the Kennedy bill, by raising the employer's minimum wage-tax cost from $42.44 to $53.05 per person for a 40-hour week, would prompt many to lay off unskilled workers and thus swell unemployment...
...last week Senators and Representatives around the U.S. achieved remarkable agreement in their findings: the folks back home like President John Kennedy. They are fascinated by his vigor and by his virtuosity in juggling crises the way a gymnast juggles Indian clubs. But there is little ground swell in support of his programs...