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...campus after campus, Redding found that hatred of America is an unwritten part of the curriculum. Hecklers bombarded him: "America carries on germ warfare . . . America's gifts are false gifts . . . Americans Go Home." As evidence of American "sex madness," students in Bombay produced fake pictures of coeds being stripped by American college boys -a farfetched reference to the spring fever "panty raids" of 1952. In Poona the students had been shown newsreel films of U.S. infantrymen threatening a parade of workers, but, as Redding quickly pointed out, it was 20 years out of date. The workers were the bonus...
...result of past experience the relations of student and teacher at Harvard have come to be governed by a series of unwritten laws similar in a way to the British Constitution, a flexible modus vivendi capable of reinterpretation and development to fit new needs, as in the case of Parietal Rule changes last year. These changes in the attendance system now under consideration seem to me to violate the well-established and effective convention that student attendance at lectures, etc., is a purely voluntary and individual matter. From my own contacts with the Harvard administration I have received the impression...
...Loire during the French Revolution was "red with blood from Saumur to Nantes, a length of 45 miles." But Dumas' romantic novels enchant them with the news of life they find there, i.e., that "love observes the proprieties, fanaticism is lighthearted, massacres excite a smile." Flaubert's unwritten but clearly foreshadowed ending: frustrated and impoverished, the simpletons go back to work as copying clerks...
...crime seems to have reached a saturation point of about 20 network shows a week. Most abide by an unwritten rule not to go on the air before 9 in the evening, when impressionable moppets are supposedly in bed. But ABC's hour-long The Mask has broken the taboo by starting at 8 p.m. on Sunday nights. Only two future network shows are scheduled (a revival of Mr. & Mrs. North; and 21st Precinct, starring Paul Kelly) but they will probably do no more than replace other crime shows due to expire because of sponsor failure...
...which was almost the same as the publishers' offer (v. the $7.50 the union had demanded), and to let three fact-finders decide if they should get any more. Although the fact-finders' decision is not binding on either the union or the publishers, there was an unwritten understanding that both sides would accept...