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...shows on the current TV programs seem to be composed of nothing but gangsters, tough cowboys, blustering, blood & thunder pictures which give every child from Maine to Louisiana the idea that it is right and honorable and pure heroism to shoot and kill in cold blood. At the tender age of four years, my daughter has a well-established idea that it is nice to shoot people...
...Connally's toes were bruised and tender. Back home in Texas, where he is running a hard campaign for reelection, some of the folks had been stepping on him for paying too little attention to Texas and too much attention to Dean Acheson and those other dudes he runs into as chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee...
Princeton's hockey team added a good defense an excellent goal-tender, and some outrageous luck to a ragged, uninspired Harvard club to produce a 4 to 1 victory at the Arena last night...
...human. If presented with the statistics, it is capable of taking co-operative action to aid the dining hall system. For instance, how many are aware that the annual cost of wasted milk has reached five figures? But when rules are imposed without consideration for the tender feelings of the student body, it is inevitable that friction will result in the form of antagonism against the dining halls. By any objective criterion, our dining halls. By any objective criterion, our dining halls are doing a highly satisfactory job; the food here is, after all, unsurpassed by any comparable institution...
During the years Author Stead lived in New York, she caught the big-city fever. Her book is full of its talk and humor, its weather and character. She has observed the manners of drug clerks, the delights of walking Manhattan streets ("rich and tender with neon") on a spring night, the friendly chaos of lower Manhattan life. She has an especially good eye for the Gramercy Park neighborhood, that sedate mixture of mild Bohemia and dusty elegance, with poverty just a step away...