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Throughout this turmoil, Mrs. Bunting appealed to girls to understand the College's financial troubles and the losses it would sustain if the rebate were granted. The College's difficulties are undoubtedly legitimate, but Mrs. Bunting's appeals for finances, in the girls' minds, came rather late. However valid her reasons for reneging on a promise, it was clear to girls that she was reneging. This incident is typical of Mrs. Bunting's tactics: she maneuvers herself into conflicts, speaks too soon, and later finds that she must go back on her word. Continued contact with their president has eroded...
...Just as in the case of Korea, it is easy to hope that it is impossible for China to intervene. She is preoccupied domestically, her army is poorly equipped by modern standards, she has no respectable air force or nuclear umbrella, and so on. These arguments were even more valid in 1950 than they are today. Nevertheless, China did intervene in Korea. Until recently, Washington was convinced that China would intervene if Hanoi collapsed; now Washington begins to doubt. But it is not China's policies or her national interests which have changed. What has changed is the Administration...
...taste on works such as Tristan und Isolde (premarital sex), Salome (fetishism and degeneracy) and Wozzeck (sadism and murder). "English records that deal with sex, sin and drugs" are what make the best popular music true, if controversial art, precisely because they deal with an imagery that is valid for youth today...
...test this theory, Lowell threw his powerful but ill-coordinated body into football. The theory was sound: he won his letter as tackle. "It was more will power than love of the game," says Parker. "It was his way of exercising the moral imperative." But would the theory be valid for poetry...
...Marcus observed a total of five possible human images behind the wall in the background, including two (designated nos. 2 and 5) in which one can see a suggestion of a gun. Although the other three images are more questionable, Marcus is certain both 2 and 5 are valid. For each he has what he considers independent corroboration--a faint suggestion of a figure in the ITEK photo for the #5 man and an unmistakeable silhouette in yet another picture for the #2 man. The silhouette is from a picture taken by Philip Willis--a retired Air Force major from...