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...turbulent times to open their doors to thousands of patently unqualified students. [President Robben] Fleming [of the University of Michigan, who acceded to black students' demands for the enrollment of 900 black students by 1971] buckled under to a few squads of kid extortionists. As for the vigor of my criticism of President Fleming, it was conscious-based on the old Cub Scout theory that the best way to put a tough coat on a marshmallow is to roast...
Perhaps. Much depends on the vigor and candor with which the Government handles the investigation of what went wrong. Despite the disappointment over Apollo 13, the episode had its positive side. Snatching the astronauts from death was a major triumph, one that demonstrates the program's strength and resilience, and the resourcefulness of the men?in deep space and on the ground?who overcame the disaster that struck Apollo...
...TASTE: "Never have people had so much taste as in the past twenty years, and never has the true creative spirit been so impoverished. It is in periods without taste, periods of vigor and simplicity, that art flourishes best...
...week, in its first annual report, the board acknowledged a widespread feeling that "Britain was becoming Europe's offshore Las Vegas" and declared that Nevada-style gaming "would be unlikely to be tolerated." Its own policy, the board added, will be to enforce the law "with the utmost vigor and determination...
...take to wake us up? There is an American poetry more vital than Snodgrass, better than Brautigan, that we don't know about, that we can hardly even read because all along we've been taught to emulate a sensibility that just isn't our own. There was a vigor in my long high school poem, bad as it was, that nothing I've written since has equalled. Nobody's going to show us the books we need to be reading, especially not here. We have to find them for ourselves...