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Senator Alan Cranston, a Democrat from California, reports nearly a 10-to-l ratio against the President in 35,000 letters, including one from a youth counselor in Whittier, Nixon's home town. "I find it a bit awkward to convince a wayward youth to be honest or just while our President sets such a startling example to the contrary," he wrote. A pro-Nixon letter from Newport Beach countered: "From the Viet Nam War through Watergate and calling Brezhnev's bluff, Mr. Nixon's full name should be President Guts Nixon...
According to Tseng, wayward youth are not the only ones who have failed to heed the teachings of Mao. In the residential district that he heads, some workers arrive late and leave early. His solution: more education and ideological indoctrination. What he means by education was apparent in a visit to the neighborhood primary school, where ranks of chanting, ten-year-old martinets were memorizing verses that told them of their ineradicable debt to Chairman Mao. Ideological work for their elders took place in a "recall bitterness" room, where melodramatic clay figures of pre-Liberation exploited workers were neatly...
Just about a year ago, the University thought it might be nice to provide university-restricted phones located outside the Yard dorms and Houses. But Harvard did not reckon with a faculty computer, and that wayward computer may cost Ma Bell a bundle in unpaid long distance calls...
...editors of the period were intensely concerned with the quality of their product. Every day's paper was dissected in the comment book, with praise, humor and declamation in equal measures. Wayward editors were presented with such reproofs...
Like Pindar to some lesser bard. Let me some sound advice award To Beckett: Stick thou to thy last, Reverence the masters of the past. And listen! O thou wayward Muse Who first let Beckett on the loose: Small habits, when pursued betimes, Soon reach the dignity of crimes. Michael Ryan...