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...contrary, he admitted, self-critically, that his knowledge of the life in a henhouse was far from profound and asked for permission to study the welter of problems on the spot. Within a short space of time the fox put on three kilos...
...main problems perhaps would not be internal so much as external. The University may feel that its reputation as a welter of Communistic thought has created enough turmoil without establishing an overt relationship with Russia. But because of its independence, Harvard is the most logical institution to initiate cultural trade. State universities, for the most part under the control of conservative state legislatures, are certainly in no position to take up the Russian gauntlet. For Harvard, on the other hand, a visiting professorship from Moscow could prove to be quite a coup, not only as an assertion of a rational...
...known as progressive education to make the positive consequences more immediately effective, but anyone who visits the lower grades of the average school today will observe that a change has been made, not from averse to positive control, but from one form of averse stimulation to another.... In this welter of averse consequences, getting the right answer is in itself an insignificant event, any effect of which is lost amid the anxieties, the boredom, and the aggressions which are the inevitable by-products of averse control...
...spring crept up on the entertainment world, lovebirds, young and middle-agish. began to warble of making nests, although their fluty chirps were all but drowned out by the quasi-romantic uproar emanating from the welter of Kelly-Rainier prenuptial rites (see PRESS). Italy's limpid-eyed Cinemorsel Marisa Pavan, 23, an Oscar nominee for her supporting role in The Rose Tattoo, was going to marry France's dashing Cinemale Jean Pierre Aumont this summer; she thought he was "about 42" (he is 46), pooh-poohed his Riviera trysts with Grace Kelly as "just a publicity stunt...
Happily, long years of practice have made the dedicated track fan proof against the distracting discord on the floor. Somehow he can spot his favorite in the welter of colored sweat suits. Last week Parry O'Brien was not the only record breaker he had to watch...