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...already at an all-time high from the dues which the club collects in order to be free to devote its full energies to educational and constructive functions and avoid this Shriners' Circus type activity. And while this one issue reflects badly on the club, it is only a symptom of a general change in the nature of the club, from an independent, idealistic, reform-Democratic group to a strict party-oriented organization which regards its own properity and perpetuation as an end rather than a means...
...rapid changes of modern life constantly faco people with new situations, forcing them to expand their knowledge. A symptom of today's intellectual expansion, he said, is the increasingly high quality of paperback books now sold in supermarkets and drug stores as well as bookstores...
...American irony, including the style of TIME, shows some awareness of the ambiguity of life-as long as it does not degenerate into mere cynicism. The awareness of the ambiguity of one's own highest achievements (as well as one's own deepest failures) is a definite symptom of maturity. Therefore, in an assembly in which such great achievements in so many realms of life are represented, it may be justified to speak of something I suggest calling "the ambiguity of perfection." ∙ He who is not aware of the ambiguity of his perfection as a person...
...indifference has been carefully maintained as a defense against a system which offers little chance for the undergraduates to direct the course of their activities in areas which are of real interest to them. We believe likewise that the faculty, and many of the students, have seriously misread this symptom, and have not taken pains to try to understand why such apthy is so prevalent in a place which normally should hold so much of interest to the men living here...
...four men cooped up in a single cell pass the time. They call their quaint little game The Torture of Joan of Arc, and it is a symptom of their terrible sense of guilt, which consumes them as the flames consume the roach. A preoccupation with guilt is nothing new for modern French novelists, but Jean Cau. 37, examines the meaning of guilt more exhaustively than even Camus or Sartre-though not always with their clarity. A controversial journalist as well as a novelist and playwright, Cau won the 1961 Prix Goncourt for The Mercy...