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...Crimson reported a sharp rise in student interest in things political. To me this is an exciting development. We are all part of the body politic in one way or another, whether we like it or not. And if we don't like it, which is not an uncommon feeling today, there is only one way to change it, and that is by participation...
...binds these people is rarely found among more advanced peoples. Without the use of physical discipline, there is an inherent respect for one's elders, for the sacred privacy of each member of the group, and for the unspoken moral code. Social divisions on the basis of age are uncommon where close friendships often embrace different generations...
...criticism that they tend to exaggerate violence, and that the mere presence of TV cameras and crowds of reporters can detonate a volatile situation. Boston faced precisely such a hazard this month when public schools opened under a controversial integration plan involving busing. Local news coverage, however, was an uncommon paradigm of restraint...
...pageantlike pace of George Schaefer's direction and give us some supporting characters who are not just mouthpieces for historical exposition. From them we might learn something of the spirit of a time in which a figure we are expected to regard as a demigod had an uncommon number of enemies. At the very least they should goad the central figure into some emotion less tedious than all-forgiving humility...
Meningitis-inflammation of the parchment-like covering of the brain and spinal cord-was relatively uncommon in Brazil until 1970. Since then, there have been increasingly widespread epidemics reaching a peak during the winter month of June. Normally concentrated among slum children, the disease this year has struck a large proportion of adults. It also appears to have crossed the class barrier, attacking the more affluent residents of São Paulo. Some doctors have suggested that the 1974 microbes may be mutants that are a menace to those handling the dead. So as to reduce the number of those...