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...Life of One's Own. A basic thrust of a college education ought to be toward helping students to develop "a life of one's own-a sense of self." Instead, says Eble, "every major movement in higher education seems to be away from the kind of confrontation, contemplation and discipline necessary to help a student shape himself." He sympathizes with students who react against the impersonal university by turning to social action but warns that "a commitment to self" must precede a "commitment that takes them to the barricades." What students need are more free hours...
...coiling viscera. Now a gallery of all the women he has ever known flips on and oft, on and off, mid-screen. "All girls are yours!" the Guide exclaims. He points to one, saying: "See her stamen trembling for the electric penetration of pollen." Then Harry is rudely thrust back into a dizzying montage, "The Neurological Chess Game" of everyday life. Abruptly he is told: "It's time to play the game of death." Harry reaches for a girl-and compulsively strangles her. A hangman dangles a noose before him, and Harry vaporizes into "the galaxy of the senses...
Grace's main thrust has been into chemicals, and the company is now the U.S.'s eighth largest chemical manufacturer-which puts it among giants. It is also big in the food-and-drink field. Having already acquired chocolate companies in the U.S. and Holland, Grace so far this year has picked up Nalley's, Inc., a snack-food producer in Tacoma, Wash., with annual sales of about $45 million, and Marela, Ltd., a pickle firm in Britain. Before the end of 1966, Grace hopes to buy out Sea-Pak Corp. of St. Simons Island...
...intended target in Central Bay. Their hopes buoyed, scientists at Pasadena's Jet Propulsion Laboratory planned a minor mid-course correction and ordered Surveyor's three small vernier engines to fire briefly. Two of the engines performed obediently, but the third refused to work. The resulting unbalanced thrust threw Surveyor into a tumble that built up to 146 revolutions per minute after repeated but vain attempts to fire the balky engine. As the ship's solar panels whirled wildly, they were unable to fix on the sun and generate electricity, and the spacecraft's batteries began...
...life of "continued affectation" which surrounds him. In the last scene, his sincerity and sobriety provide the one dramatic moment of the Charles production which is not just funny. Then everybody starts the frug. Like the show itself, the dance entertains, but it makes Congreve's quiet thrust at meaning pointless. I would have thought the one thing that a repertory company might have learned from modern drama is to take comedy just a little seriously...