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...claim that scholarship students come largely from upper-middle income brackets is also quite valid, as the Admissions Office here is so keenly aware. But Holland uses only the word "prestigious" to show the causes of this trend; he uses the word in the different senses of fame, popularity and high quality and thus gives a muddled analysis of the motivations of applicants and the relation between their social status and preparation...
Bigotry works two ways. It is bigotry to oppose a man for public office because of his religious faith. But it is also bigotry to accuse those who oppose him for valid political reasons of acting out of prejudice...
...Viewpoints. The editorial pages of Southern newspapers reflect near unanimity on at least one point: the religion issue exists and will continue to bulk large in the 1960 campaign. A few papers, such as the Charleston, S.C. News & Courier, argue that Kennedy's Catholicism is a vital and valid political issue. More typical is the Columbus, Miss. Commercial Dispatch: "It is regrettable that what ought to be at most a relatively minor concern is overshadowing such major issues as foreign aid, economic growth and civil rights...
...idea, the Senate ratified it only after a prickly debate, and even then 21 Senators voted against it, so that it got a two-thirds majority with only eight votes to spare. Some Senators grumbled that the U.S. should not have allowed Russia, an Ivan-come-lately with no valid claim in Antarctica, to be a partner in the treaty. "It amounts to putting the free world and the slave world on the same footing," complained Connecticut's Thomas Dodd. Thundered Georgia's Richard Russell, recalling the exploits of the late Explorer Byrd (brother of Virginia...
...Method actors is that they act on stage as if they were performing before a camera: that is, they mumble in a way inaudible to the back rows. I don't think this is a fault more common among Method actors than any others, but if the complaint is valid there is a logical reason for the failing...