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...many others, the discovery that Harvard is not an intellectual utopia and that brilliance is not tantamount to social acceptance brings a crisis in the whole attitude toward knowledge. A vision of Harvard which anticipates social success arising from intellectual ability is often reason for coming, and the discovery that no synthesis exists, that the academic conscience which drove them through school does not bring adequate rewards, and that, more intelligent or no, others are clearly more sophisticated, all can be profoundly disturbing...
...omission of Charlie's name from a stretch of pavement that will be known as the Hollywood "Walk of Fame," bearing the inscribed names of some 1,500 Hollywood stars, past and present. Chaplin Jr. sees his father's failure to get star billing in cement as tantamount to public disgrace. At the very least, it is ingratitude...
...Every Christian has an obligation to contribute to pious works," said Palestra del Clero, a fortnightly published for priests in Rovigo, near Venice. "For the clergy, this contribution is tantamount to a restitution, because no priest can ever say, T received nothing from the church,' ignoring the fact that the seminary educated him, the church conferred priesthood on him and the hierarchy entrusted him with an apostolate. Furthermore, the practice of the virtue of poverty, enjoined on every priest, demands personal detachment from all worldly possessions, both in life and more so. in death." Other publications were more blunt...
...your June 20 story about Archbishop Ritter's declaring that no Roman Catholic student may attend a non-Catholic institution unless written permission is obtained from the archdiocese: to this I say hogwash ! To imply that Catholic educational institutions alone possess and dispense truth is tantamount to admitting "fear of truth...
...Florida, where the multimillion-dollar citrus industry is one of the state's biggest, that is tantamount to coming out for frost. Chairman J. R. Graves of the Florida Citrus Commission accused Tropicana of "premeditated and willful violation of the citrus code" (which prohibits producers from adding anything to fresh juice), called the deed "a reflection on the integrity of the entire industry." The Florida Citrus Commission called for punishment of Tropicana "in a degree commensurate with the seriousness of the offenses." Tropicana President Anthony T. Rossi admitted that he had ordered cane sugar syrup added to about half...