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Defending the rent decision, Ford said he doubted it could create serious financial problems for students but would eliminate some of the "haggling" over rooms that now plagues the Masters. He called the unanimous approval given the plan by the Masters as "uncommon phenomenon...
...every schoolboy dreamed of going to France and getting a mild "blighty"-a wound that would send him back to England uncrippled but with a gold stripe on his sleeve. Loom of Youth told only what all but the most naive schoolmasters already knew-that homosexuality was not uncommon in a system that "herded together monastically children of thirteen and men of eighteen for two-thirds of the year." Nevertheless, it shocked the sensibilities of a nation brought up on The Brushwood Boy and Tom Brown's School Days...
...reason for this to continue, "basically because the truths are all on our side." In spite of this tendency, U.S. defense install-ations remain major sources of irritation, though even here, he claims, the Japanese are gradually realizing that defense may be necessary, after all. Still, it is not uncommon for "throngs of Communists to flatter me by giving me attention and yelling 'Reischauer go home...
Caravelle Camaraderie. Such uncommon pressures unite the newsmen to an uncommon degree. They work hard and go their separate ways on separate assignments. But when they meet and unwind-in the field, in their homes or in the camaraderie of the Hotel Caravelle's eighth-floor bar-they pool their convictions, information, misinformation and grievances. But the balm of such companionship has not been conducive to independent thought. The reporters have tended to reach unanimous agreement on almost everything they have seen. But such agreement is suspect because it is so obviously inbred. The newsmen have themselves become...
...every reason for this to continue, "basically because the truths are all on our side." In spite of this tendency, U.S. defense installations remain major sources of irritation. But even here, he claims, the Japanese are gradually realizing that defense may be necessary, after all. Still, it is not uncommon, however, for "throngs of Communists to flatter me by giving me attention and yelling 'Reischauer go home...