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...that they all are too easily incited by hooligans and by the opportunity to show off. Mod-Rocker antagonism is honed by class resentment, for the Rockers are mostly manual workers while Mods tend to be selfconsciously superior white-collar types. Many Britons see in these outbursts a symptom of deep boredom and frustration that, in different ways, is also shared by the older generation. While the youngsters enjoy unparalleled affluence, they nevertheless see drab lives ahead. As the Guardian diagnosed it, "Theirs is an ailment which can only be cured when the places in which they live...
...entertaining or merely dull. A healthy society must assume a certain degree of immunity on the part of its people. But no one can really calculate the effect this exposure is having on individual lives and minds. Above all, it is not an isolated phenomenon. It is part and symptom of an era in which morals are widely held to be both private and relative, in which pleasure is increasingly considered an almost constitutional right rather than a privilege, in which self-denial is increasingly seen as foolishness rather than virtue. While science has reduced fear of long-dreaded earthly...
Most of today's doctors learned in medical school that when a patient makes a big thing of some minor symptom, his real complaint is not the physical ailment but an emotional problem...
...teaching that the Overseers Committee pointed to in the teaching fellow program exists, in differing degrees, throughout the Faculty, and the inattention of some senior Faculty members to the performance of section men is only a symptom of a much more serious attention to teaching as a whole. As the report pointed out, the quality of teaching fellows varies greatly from department to department; it varies even more, however, from course to course. Professors who take their own teaching seriously tend to demand similar devotion from their teaching fellows, while those who regard time spent in the classroom as distasteful...
...excitement over a single regiment is a symptom of what Washington calls NATO's "double standard." German fears are understandable, but Europeans in general, Washington feels, expect the U.S. to meet its NATO commitments as a matter of course, while never coming near to fulfilling their own obligations in the alliance. As one U.S. official told reporters last week: "For a long time NATO has been a 20-mule-team wagon, with one mule pulling and the others sitting in the wagon. It is time for them to get out and pull...